Re: [xml2rfc] RfcMarkup not authoritative, HTML is gone?

Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com> Mon, 16 September 2019 14:46 UTC

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From: Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [xml2rfc] RfcMarkup not authoritative, HTML is gone?
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On 2019-09-16 16:27, Paul Kyzivat wrote:
> On 9/16/19 1:22 AM, Anders Rundgren wrote:
>> On 2019-09-14 11:41, Julian Reschke wrote:
>> <snip>
>>>
>>> RfcMarkup has no official standing (and yes, I like it as well, and it
>>> has served us well for a very long time). It apparently generates XHTML,
>>> but the content is served as text/html on tools.ietf.org. It might be
>>> good to change it to produce valid HTML5.
>>
>> This in interesting and but also rather confusing since this is the by
>> far most used method for communicating RFCs by developers.
> 
> Do you have any data to backup this claim?

No, OTOH, since I mostly work with JSON-based stuff, the documents are fairly recent.

What I'm sure that I have newer seen in wild are references to PDF RFCs (which apparently are in plain text).

Thanx,
Anders

> 
> 	Thanks,
> 	Paul
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