> Paul Hoffman / IMC writes: > > At 1:22 PM -0400 9/2/03, Rosen, Brian wrote: > > >2) Ability to cross reference documents > > > > That benefit only appears if all, or a significant proportion, of the > > Internet Drafts are in XML or a similar format. That's not what you > > proposed. > It seems to me that a fairly simple hack could be > consed up to generate HTML or whatever for current > RFC's and drafts given .txt input which automatically > goes the through the references section to make > hyperlinks. In fact that would be a pretty > nifty feature regardless of this debate... Such hacks already exist http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/ and work fairly well for the more recent RFCs, which follow a fairly regular set of formatting rules. But internet-drafts are sufficiently irregular in format that this approach doesn't seem to work all that well. And why should you have to guess when you don't have to? Ned