Re: [xml2rfc] preferred values for <sourcecode> type

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Wed, 06 November 2019 00:33 UTC

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Subject: Re: [xml2rfc] preferred values for <sourcecode> type
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On Nov 6, 2019, at 01:14, Alice Russo <arusso@amsl.com> wrote:
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> Understood; thanks. Will update the list accordingly. 
> 
> Any suggestion for the type for test vectors as in App. A.1 - A.3 of the same document (https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-bruckert-brainpool-for-tls13-07.txt)?

This is a freeform language that will require some manual processing before it can be fed into anything.  I think it would be useful to have a <sourcecode> type for this kind of pseudocode.

> Or would you use artwork?

Not really, because there is nothing spatial about it — there is no need to preserve horizontal alignment etc.

Grüße, Carsten