Re: [xml2rfc] Low priority bug - bad date input

[Kesara Rathnayake <[e-mail]>]

Hi Dave,

Can you provide the xml2rfc version and draft that causes this error?
I can create an issue in https://github.com/ietf-tools/xml2rfc/issues/ 
for this.

I grabbed https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-oran-icnrg-pathsteering-06.xml 
changed the year to 2016.
And `xml2rfc --text --pdf --html draft-oran-icnrg-pathsteering-06.xml` 
gave me following error:
```
Error: Expected <date> to have the current year when month is missing, 
but found '2016'
```

This is because xml2rfc has logic that checks for a month if the year is 
not the current year.
There's an existing issue recorded for this to cover this to a warning [1].

Cheers,
Kesara

[1] https://github.com/ietf-tools/xml2rfc/issues/704

On 6/05/22 1:18 am, David R. Oran wrote:
> I mistakenly typed the year “2016” into the date field for a draft update and it crashed xml2rfc rather than reporting an input error:
> 
> oran@ORAN-M-51B7 icn-pathsteering % xml2rfc --text --pdf --html draft-oran-icnrg-pathsteering-06.xml
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/local/bin/xml2rfc", line 8, in <module>
>      sys.exit(main())
>    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xml2rfc/run.py", line 739, in main
>      xmlrfc.tree = prep.prep()
>    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xml2rfc/writers/preptool.py", line 216, in prep
>      tree = self.dispatch(self.selectors)
>    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xml2rfc/writers/base.py", line 1925, in dispatch
>      func(e, e.getparent())
>    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/xml2rfc/writers/preptool.py", line 419, in check_attribute_values
>      if i and not i.isdigit() and not i==self.get_attribute_defaults(c.tag)[a]:
> KeyError: 'year'
> oran@ORAN-M-51B7 icn-pathsteering %
> 
> DaveO
> 
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Kesara Rathnayake
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