Re: [xml2rfc] Novice bad user on device, or Catch-22?

[Henrik Levkowetz <[e-mail]>]

Hi Paul,

On 2020-01-21 17:34, Paul Kyzivat wrote:
> On 1/21/20 8:37 AM, David R. Oran wrote:
>> On 21 Jan 2020, at 3:26, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Dave,
>>>
>> [snipping out to get to your question]
>> 
>>> On 2020-01-21 06:51, David R. Oran wrote:
>>>
>>> And yes, having v3 templates would be helpful.  I'll see if I can fix that
>>> too.  Where would you normally grab a template?
>>>
>> well, by googling :-)
>> Probably the home ought to be off the tools home page at tools.ietf.org. There’s already a “templates” link on that page - it’s to Elwyn Davies examples, and ought to have a V3 template.
> 
> I've just been lurking, but seems like a good time to comment...
> 
> I normally get my "template" by starting with some similar document, 
> either one of my own if I have a suitable one, or from some document I 
> am generally aware of.
> 
> But that doesn't work well now when there aren't many v3 documents to 
> crib from.
> 
> I guess I would be inclined to grab the v2 for some similar document and 
> convert it. But I guess maybe that won't give optimal style for the new 
> document. So maybe having a recommended source of pure templates and 
> also some "real" documents that are judged to be "good" examples would 
> be helpful.

The RPC might have some prepublication files that have been edited to
their standards.

For a schema v3 template, I've now run the converter on Elwyn's template
to produce a v3 version, and linked to that from https://tools.ietf.org/.


	Henrik