Re: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in Addition to ASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

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Julian Reschke wrote:
> Joe Touch schrieb:
>> ...
>> As long as future versions are backward compatible with all past
>> versions, that's fine. That has not been my impression of xml2rfc over
>> the small window I tried to use it.
>> ...
> 
> I guess that depends on the expectation. RFC2629 defines semantical
> markup. If your expectation is that a given input document will produce
> *identical* ASCII output over time, then yes, you may experience
> incompatibilities.

That's a problem when it changes page numbers (which end up being as
useful as semantic tags) or figures. Or (as importantly) template or
boilerplate text.

Joe

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