Jari
If we have xml in the archive, then there are several tools
that can serve you up your choice of formats from that archive.
I don't think the value of storing the html bits in the archive
is all that much additional value. One could have a website
that delivered such a thing without storing the html bits.
Such a site would permit the hyperlinking that you are talking
about. We also avoid heated discussions about what was allowable
in the html, what version of which tools, etc. This is a contentious
enough issue ("rough consensus and running code" applies, right?),
and making it bigger makes it harder to reach rough consensus.
Let's just do one simple thing -- allow xml, and see how it goes.
Brian
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jari Arkko [mailto:jari.arkko@piuha.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 1:28 AM
> To: Michael Thomas
> Cc: Paul Hoffman / IMC; Rosen, Brian; 'ietf@ietf.org'
> Subject: Re: A modest proposal - allow the ID repository to hold xml
>
>
> Michael Thomas wrote:
> > 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
>
> I'd very much like to allow the submission of XML to the
> I-D directories.
>
> However, in addition I'd like to actually allow the
> submission of HTML, generated by xml2rfc. Why? Because
> I'd really like to browse most drafts through my browser,
> jump to sections, find the references easily etc. And without
> performing any extra steps by myself.
>
> (It may be that this is possible via XML as well -- I'm
> not expert in XML so I can't tell if its readily supported
> by everyone's browser without loading lots of DTDs. Does
> someone know?)
>
> And all of these submission formats should be allowed if
> and only there's a text version to go with it.
>
> --Jari
>