Re: Lets be careful with those XML submissions to the RFC Editor

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At Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:21:05 +0100,
Eliot Lear wrote:
At Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:21:05 +0100,
Eliot Lear wrote:
> 
> Paul Hoffman wrote:
> > At 11:58 PM +0200 11/25/07, Jari Arkko wrote:
> >> Paul,
> >>
> >>>
> >>>  They still should (strongly) consider checking the validity of the XML
> >>>  by comparing it to what the IESG approved.
> >>
> >> Yes, and they do compare to what IESG approved. Substantial changes are
> >> brought to the AD's approval. This is what caused us to find the problem
> >> in this case.
> >
> > I'm confused. Why should the RFC Editor accept XML with any
> > substantial changes? That's inherently prone to error. They should
> > start with what was approved.
> 
> This argues that XML files be submitted as the authoritative source at
> the time of WGLC, Paul, if they are going to be submitted at all, and
> the I-D manager generates the text.  I'm fine with that, by the way.

Actually I think this is backwards.

The text file is the authoritative reference, as always. The XML
file, when processed with xml2rfc, must generate text which is
identical to the text file.

-Ekr

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