Re: [xml2rfc] [Rfc-markdown] New xml2rfc release: v2.12.1

[Martin J. Dürst <[e-mail]>]

On 2018/10/30 15:29, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:

> The current html specification would instead have produced, depending on
> how you work around its problems, one of
> 
>    Midtskogveien 18
>    Skedsmokorset
>    2020
>    Norway
> 
> or
> 
>    Midtskogveien 18
>    Skedsmokorset, 2020
>    Norway
> 
> which is a slighter degree of mangling than for places like various areas
> of Japan, that needs city-region.  Here is a Japanese example.  This is
> correct (except that it's also a translation, not just a romanization):

It is (mostly) correct for the original, which would be something like:

日本
〒 112-0001
東京都文京区白山 4-3-2
3F B室

Note that the hierarchical number (4-3-2) always comes after 白山 
(Hakusan) in the Japanese version. It can come after or before in the 
romanized version. Also note that in Japanese, there isn't really a 
fixed convention for line breaks; in addition, this example has a floor 
and room designation but lacks a building name, which isn't very typical.

>    Japan
>    112-0001
>    Tokyo-to
>    Bunkyo-ku
>    4-3-2 Hakusan
>    3rd Floor Room B

This order of address fields would be very strange for an actually 
romanized address, the example below, with some fixes, would be much better.

> and the RFC7992 specification would have rendered it as either this,
> preserving the semantic labelling of the parts, but loosing the city-region
> part:
> 
>    3rd Floor Room B
>    4-3-2 Hakusan
>    Tokyo-to, 112-0001
>    Japan

Romanized, it should be something like:

3rd Floor Room B
4-3-2 Hakusan, Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo, 112-0001 Japan

More or less linebreaks are okay, there isn't too much of a fixed 
convention. The -to after Tokyo isn't used that much for romanized 
addresses.

Regards,   Martin.

> or would loose all semantic labelling through forced use of postalLine for
> all entries.
> 
> This problem has however been solved to a large degree by modern libraries.
> If you can do this *right*, why continue to do it wrong?