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

Paul Kyzivat <pkyzivat@alum.mit.edu> Mon, 16 September 2019 14:27 UTC

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From: Paul Kyzivat <pkyzivat@alum.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: [xml2rfc] RfcMarkup not authoritative, HTML is gone?
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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?

	Thanks,
	Paul

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