Am 29.10.2020 um 15:48 schrieb Keith Moore:
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.
...
I never perceived that as a big problem.
Of course it's possible to run "xml2rfc --preptool" to generate an XML
document with section numbers inlined (see
<https://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc7998.html#part-numbering>), but of
course you wouldn't want to *edit* that.
At the end of the day, it's a choice of automatic and consistent section
numbering (what we have now), or having the authors do the numbering. I
prefer the former.
Best regards, Julian
