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

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On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 12:29:51PM -0800, Bill Fenner wrote:

> Straight revision control systems aren't actually that good for XML
> that's been edited in an XML editor, since they tend to pretty-print
> the XML when saving, and people using 2 different editors could end up
> creating diffs on every line.  (Of course, one could use a front end
> to the revision control system that formatted the XML and used rfcdiff
> on the result...)

As you said, reasonable version control systems have hooks which can
be used to automatically "normalize" documents while they are being
checked in.

/js

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