On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:19:11 +0200 Simon Josefsson <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sam Hartman <hartmans-ietf@xxxxxxx> writes: > > > Hi. I'm sitting here reviewing changes to a document to see if I > > can last call it. > > > > As part of a response to AD review comments, one of the references > > were changed. This document uses numeric references. Starting at > > reference 16, everything was renumbered. That makes the diff a > > pain. > > > > For this and many other reasons, I strongly encourage people to > > avoid numeric references in their documents. > > That makes sense, but I believe the default for the xml2rfc tool is to > produce numeric references. Does xml2rfc support symbolic references? > If the defaults in xml2rfc is changed to symbolic references, I think > we'd see that a lot of documents would adopt the new approach. > Use the line <?rfc symrefs="yes" ?> to get symbolic references. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf