Going back to the original problem, it might be more useful to use an xml diff program than a text diff program since that's where the changes will be made (and visible). The anchors and targets will stay stable. Maybe we can have this added to the tool set? At 23:45 4/5/2007, Bill Fenner wrote: >On 4/5/07, John C Klensin <john-ietf@xxxxxxx> wrote: >>... xml2rfc ends up with >>symbolic references that look like >>[I-D.rfc-editor-rfc2223bis] (one of the less unattractive ones) >>or, potentially, >>[I-D.draft-narten-iana-considerations-rfc2434-bis]. Those >>things cause formatting problems, violate almost every known >>style manual about forms for symbolic references, and so on. If >>our tools permitted us to use the forms that are recommended in >>the rest of the world, such as "[Nart07a]" for the above, it >>would be different. But they don't permit doing so conveniently. > >I wrote an xsl transform that does this. > >xml2rfc mydoc.xml mydoc-tmp.xml >xsltproc strip-id-references.xsl mydoc-tmp.xml > mydoc-tmp2.xml >xml2rfc mydoc-tmp2.xml mydoc.txt > >http://rtg.ietf.org/~fenner/ietf/xml2rfc-xsl/strip-id-references.xsl > >(Not to say that this is "convenient", but it's at least possible) > > Bill > >_______________________________________________ >Ietf mailing list >Ietf@xxxxxxxx >https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf