On 10/29/20 6:04 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
At the I-D stage page numbers are useful because people send diffs
and you need to context to get to the right place in the .xml.
How do page numbers help with the XML? Aren't section and paragraph
numbers much better for that?
Given that none of section, paragraph, or page numbers appear in
the XML, I don't see how any of them helps with that problem.
But it is a real problem.
(IMO, XML is a horrible format for document authoring/editing. It optimizes for all of the wrong things and imposes a considerable burden on writing and maintaining drafts, especially for newcomers.)
Keith
