Re: RFCs should be distributed in XML (Was: Faux Pas -- web publication in proprietary formats at ietf.org

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On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 08:36:55AM -0500,
 Andrew Newton <andy@xxxxxx> wrote 
 a message of 14 lines which said:

> My guess 

You mean there is nowhere an official statement and we have to guess?

> is that it is not a trivial matter to convert RFCs submitted in
> other forms into 2629 xml format.

OK for the existing stuff but why not for the future, such as
"Starting 1 Jan 2007, every RFC submission must be done in 2629"?

> there are many people desiring some of the word processor features
> (track changes, etc...) that are just not found in the xml authoring
> tools.

Well, you certainly know that XML is a format, not a program :-) So,
at least in theory, you could use OpenOffice and still producing 2629
(providing someone wrote a XSL transformation from OpenDocument to
2629). Not obvious, I know, but a possible path.

For the specific feature you mention, I use version control system
with XML, I do not see the problem. Tools like Subversion even allow
you to specify an external diff so you can use a XML-aware diff to see
the changes.

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