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"Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> Wed, 27 July 2011 02:23 UTC

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Hello Elwyn,

On 2011/07/27 3:27, Elwyn Davies wrote:
> Julian Reschke wrote:
>> On 2011-07-26 17:24, Elwyn Davies wrote:
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> Should have said draft is
>>> http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-irtf-routing-reqs-11.xml

I'm a bit confused here. I have looked at this, and it only contains
<!DOCTYPE rfc SYSTEM "rfc2629.dtd">, no ENTITY declarations. Can you 
check again?

Regards,    Martin.

>>> I just tried out an old draft that I know contains some unusual
>>> features.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately it didn't get as far as checking on these.
>>>
>>> I get a lot of error messages related to entity references:
>>> My imported references are in the form
>>>
>>> *<!ENTITY* RFC3471 SYSTEM
>>> "http://xml.resource.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.3471.xml"*>
>>>
>>> The error messages are of the form:
>>> *ERROR: Unable to validate the XML document: INPUT
>>> Line 1406: IDREF attribute target references an unknown ID "RFC3471"
>>>
>>> The problem is doubtless that there are a number of different forms for
>>> these ENTITY definitions!
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Elwyn
>>
>> That may be an actual bug; my validators do not see any (serious)
>> problems with that source file.
>>
>> Best regards, Julian
> :-)
> Well it certainly used to go through earlier versions of xml2rfc! And
> the RFC Editor was happy with it!
>
> The main reason for trying that draft was that it uses a numbered list
> that spans many sections which is a relatively unusual feature.
>
> I know there is already a set of drafts/rfcs as test docs... Do we have
> a document that provides an (arcane) test of as many features as we
> think of?
>
> Maybe the project plan includes a set of automated regression tests of
> this kind - if not I think that would be a useful idea. Perhaps I ought
> to expand my example file that I did when I did the xml2rfc tutorial.
> Would that be helpful or has it been done already?
>
> Regards,
> Elwyn
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