On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 11:09:15AM -0400, Ted Lemon wrote: > On Jul 11, 2019, at 10:25 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@xxxxxx> wrote: > > The insertion of the second one could indeed be automated, but then you > > would have to give a hint about normative vs informative. > > That would actually be a really nice enhancement. It could be the > rule that if no reference says, it’s normative, if all references > either don’t say or say normative, it’s normative, if all don’t say or > say informative, it’s informative, and if some say normative and some > say informative, it’s informative. The idea being that some > references to the same document may be normative and some informative, > and it makes sense to be able to signal that in the XML. Maybe every > reference should say, but I’m sure that would be a pain. > > It would also be nice if the publication date could default to “today” > and if the draft number could be determined automatically based on > what is most recent… +1 to all that. s/"today"/"time of rendering"/ (and if you only submit XML, then "time of rendering" will be closely related to "time of submission", which is very much what I usually want).