RE: Nits and XML2RFC

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Christian,

The "bug" is that xml2rfc now inserts "https://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/"; and "https://trustee.ietf.org/license-info"; whereas idnits checks for "http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/"; and "http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info";

Cheers,
Adrian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Christian Huitema
> Sent: 04 September 2017 20:53
> To: ietf@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Nits and XML2RFC
> 
> 
> 
> On 9/4/2017 12:42 PM, Christian Huitema wrote:
> > I just formatted a draft using xml2rfc and the online tool,
> > https://xml2rfc.tools.ietf.org/. Then I submitted the result for
> > publication. And it was refused because the submission checking tool
> > https://datatracker.ietf.org/submit/ found 4 errors in the copyright and
> > IPR boilerplate. This is weird, because my draft used the xml2rfc option
> > ipr="trust200902". But it seems that the xml2rfc tool and the submission
> > checking tool disagree. I get an interesting message, complaining about
> > errors such as this one: ....
> > As far as I can tell, the only difference between one text and the other
> > are the position of the line breaks. Of course, the line breaks are
> > chosen by the editing tool, and I have no control.
> >
> > Any suggestion on how to fix my draft?
> >
> OK, I managed to fix the submission. My mistake was to submit both a
> text document and an XML document. Since the xml2rfc editor used by the
> submission tool produces a slightly different format than the xml2rfc
> online tool, this generated nits. Probably the results of some recent
> change. Anyhow, I fixed the submission by submitting only the XML
> document. That appeared to be working.
> 
> --
> Christian Huitema





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