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Re: [xml2rfc] Some ID references require version, some don't

Robert Moskowitz <rgm@htt-consult.com> Thu, 28 January 2016 18:18 UTC

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To: William Atwood <william.atwood@concordia.ca>, "HANSEN, TONY L" <tony@att.com>, xml2rfc@ietf.org
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Subject: Re: [xml2rfc] Some ID references require version, some don't
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Does not seem to work.

I changed:

     <?rfc include="reference.I-D.draft-moskowitz-sse-01.xml"?>


     <?rfc include="reference.I-D.draft-moskowitz-sse.xml"?>

and got:

Unable to Validate File

ERROR: Unable to parse the XML document: INPUT
  INPUT: Line 331: Unable to resolve external request: 
"reference.I-D.draft-moskowitz-sse.xml"

Using 
XML_LIBRARY=/home/www/tools.ietf.org/tools/xml2rfc/web/public/rfc/bibxml:/home/www/tools.ietf.org/tools/xml2rfc/web/public/rfc/bibxml2:/home/www/tools.ietf.org/tools/xml2rfc/web/public/rfc/bibxml3:/home/www/tools.ietf.org/tools/xml2rfc/web/public/rfc/bibxml4:/home/www/tools.ietf.org/tools/xml2rfc/web/public/rfc/bibxml5:/home/www/tools.ietf.org/tools/xml2rfc/web/public/rfc/bibxml6
Parsing file INPUT
Resolving entity... 
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xml2rfc-2.5.1.dev0-py2.7.egg/xml2rfc/templates/rfc2629.dtd
Resolving entity... 
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xml2rfc-2.5.1.dev0-py2.7.egg/xml2rfc/templates/rfc2629-xhtml.ent
Resolving entity... 
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xml2rfc-2.5.1.dev0-py2.7.egg/xml2rfc/templates/rfc2629-other.ent
Resolving entity... 
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xml2rfc-2.5.1.dev0-py2.7.egg/xml2rfc/templates/rfc2629.dtd
Resolving entity... 
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xml2rfc-2.5.1.dev0-py2.7.egg/xml2rfc/templates/rfc2629-xhtml.ent
Resolving entity... 
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xml2rfc-2.5.1.dev0-py2.7.egg/xml2rfc/templates/rfc2629-other.ent
Resolving include... 
/home/www/tools.ietf.org/tools/xml2rfc/web/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.2119.xml
Resolving include... 
/home/www/tools.ietf.org/tools/xml2rfc/web/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.1421.xml
Resolving include... 
/home/www/tools.ietf.org/tools/xml2rfc/web/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.2784.xml
Resolving include... 
/home/www/tools.ietf.org/tools/xml2rfc/web/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.3095.xml
Resolving include... 
/home/www/tools.ietf.org/tools/xml2rfc/web/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.4303.xml
Resolving include... 
/home/www/tools.ietf.org/tools/xml2rfc/web/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.5996.xml
Resolving include... 
/home/www/tools.ietf.org/tools/xml2rfc/web/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.7401.xml
Resolving include... 
/home/www/tools.ietf.org/tools/xml2rfc/web/public/rfc/bibxml3/reference.I-D.draft-ietf-dots-requirements-00.xml
Resolving include... 
http://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.I-D.draft-moskowitz-sse.xml
URL retrieval failed with status code 404 for 
'http://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.I-D.draft-moskowitz-sse.xml'
Resolving include... 
http://xml2rfc.tools.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.I-D.draft-moskowitz-sse.xml
URL retrieval failed with status code 404 for 
'http://xml2rfc.tools.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.I-D.draft-moskowitz-sse.xml'
Resolving include... 
http://xml.resource.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.I-D.draft-moskowitz-sse.xml
URL retrieval failed with status code 404 for 
'http://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.I-D.draft-moskowitz-sse.xml'
Resolving include... 
http://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml2/reference.I-D.draft-moskowitz-sse.xml
URL retrieval failed with status code 404 for 
'http://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml2/reference.I-D.draft-moskowitz-sse.xml'
Resolving include... 
http://xml2rfc.tools.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml2/reference.I-D.draft-moskowitz-sse.xml
URL retrieval failed with status code 404 for 
'http://xml2rfc.tools.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml2/reference.I-D.draft-moskowitz-sse.xml'
Resolving include... 
http://xml.resource.org/public/rfc/bibxml2/reference.I-D.draft-moskowitz-sse.xml
URL retrieval failed with status code 404 for 
'http://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml2/reference.I-D.draft-moskowitz-sse.xml'
Resolving include... 
http://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml3/reference.I-D.draft-moskowitz-sse.xml
URL retrieval failed with status code 404 for 
'http://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml3/reference.I-D.draft-moskowitz-sse.xml'
Resolving include... 
http://xml2rfc.tools.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml3/reference.I-D.draft-moskowitz-sse.xml
URL retrieval failed with status code 404 for 
'http://xml2rfc.tools.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml3/reference.I-D.draft-moskowitz-sse.xml'
Resolving include... 
http://xml.resource.org/public/rfc/bibxml3/reference.I-D.draft-moskowitz-sse.xml
URL retrieval failed with status code 404 for 
'http://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml3/reference.I-D.draft-moskowitz-sse.xml'
Resolving include... 
http://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml4/reference.I-D.draft-moskowitz-sse.xml
URL retrieval failed with status code 404 for 
'http://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml4/reference.I-D.draft-moskowitz-sse.xml'
Resolving include... 
http://xml2rfc.tools.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml4/reference.I-D.draft-moskowitz-sse.xml
URL retrieval failed with status code 404 for 
'http://xml2rfc.tools.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml4/reference.I-D.draft-moskowitz-sse.xml'
Resolving include... 
http://xml.resource.org/public/rfc/bibxml4/reference.I-D.draft-moskowitz-sse.xml
URL retrieval failed with status code 404 for 
'http://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml4/reference.I-D.draft-moskowitz-sse.xml'
Resolving include... 
http://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml5/reference.I-D.draft-moskowitz-sse.xml
URL retrieval failed with status code 404 for 
'http://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml5/reference.I-D.draft-moskowitz-sse.xml'
Resolving include... 
http://xml2rfc.tools.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml5/reference.I-D.draft-moskowitz-sse.xml
URL retrieval failed with status code 404 for 
'http://xml2rfc.tools.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml5/reference.I-D.draft-moskowitz-sse.xml'
Resolving include... 
http://xml.resource.org/public/rfc/bibxml5/reference.I-D.draft-moskowitz-sse.xml
URL retrieval failed with status code 404 for 
'http://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml5/reference.I-D.draft-moskowitz-sse.xml'


On 01/28/2016 01:01 PM, William Atwood wrote:
> Aha,
>
> I missed the need for "draft-" when looking for a specific version.
>
> Thank you for the confirmation.
>
>    Bill
>
> On 28/01/2016 12:50 PM, HANSEN, TONY L wrote:
>> Bill, you are correct. References to individual versions are available using “reference.I-D.draft-....” names, and references to the “latest and greatest” are available using “reference.I-D....” names.
>>
>> 	Tony
>>
>>
>>
>> On 1/28/16, 12:44 PM, "xml2rfc on behalf of William Atwood" <xml2rfc-bounces@ietf.org on behalf of william.atwood@concordia.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> Robert,
>>>
>>> I believe that it is the choice of the writer of the document.  If you
>>> put the include without the version number, you will get the latest one,
>>> i.e., it will "automatically" update to the most recent one, each time
>>> that you compile.
>>>
>>> If you put the specific version, it will always bring up exactly that.
>>> The only time that this is useful is when you have to refer to a
>>> specific version of the draft.  (For example, when taking about
>>> something that has been deleted from some later version.)
>>>
>>>   Bill
>>>
>>> On 28/01/2016 11:48 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>>> I have just noticed that some ID references do not need the version
>>>> number.  For example:
>>>>
>>>>       <?rfc include="reference.I-D.ietf-hip-rfc4423-bis.xml"?>
>>>>
>>>> where as others need the version:
>>>>
>>>>      <?rfc include="reference.I-D.draft-ietf-dots-requirements-00.xml"?>
>>>>      <?rfc include="reference.I-D.draft-kivinen-ipsecme-oob-pubkey-14.xml"?>
>>>>
>>>> Why is that?  What has to be done so that version number is not needed?
>>>>
>>>> thanks

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