Re: Alternative formats for IDs

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On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 03:56:37PM -0800, Dave Crocker wrote:
> >There's no need to copy IETFdom Assembled on this, but I'm curious what
> >toolchain you're using and what limitations you've encountered.  
> 
> My impression is that there are now a number of entirely competent xml 
> editing systems.  I happen to use oXygen.

Oxygen looks like an interesting tool, but I wasn't able to readily see
that it applies stylesheets to XML to produce printable/readable
documents.  For example, can I go from a docbook document to
cmaera-ready postscript/pdf using oxygen?  Or xml2rfc -> txt? If so,
your argument is better than I thought; if not, I think that's a sign
that we're not ready to move.  Yet.

I don't think editing systems by themselves are a reason to go to an XML
format.  Again, I think that making the RFC content and metadata
available to both machines & humans is facilitated by an XML format.

[snip]
> the reason xml is interesting is that it makes editing easier, not just 
> display.

XML does not interest me for that reason.

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