> We really do need a tool, the like of which I was using 40 years ago > when writing code, that allows patches to be applied independently that's what pull requests (or gerrit) are about. > and > temporarily to see what it then looks like and if agreed that it looks > good, incorporating them permanently into the source (XML). Ideally > such a tool would reverse engineer the amended text into XML patches as > well - text is so much easier to work with than XML (or any other markup > language). try writing the draft in markdown and using Miek Gieben's or my tool (kramdown-rfc2629) to convert into XML. it is so much easier to collaborate in markdown... Grüße, Carsten