Re: [xml2rfc] Current xml2rfc produces errors on published RFCs

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Mon, 02 August 2021 16:58 UTC

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Subject: Re: [xml2rfc] Current xml2rfc produces errors on published RFCs
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On 2021-08-02, at 18:42, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> So if anything breaks with published canonical XML, we can't make that
> change?

I’d say, if a function of xml2rfc breaks that we need to run-on published v3 RFCs (8650+), we should make a better change.

Re-rendering is certainly one such function.
What else?

Grüße, Carsten