Spurious dot/point(.) characters in front of author names on page 1

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owner:henrik@levkowetz.com resolution_fixed type_defect | by elwynd@dial.pipex.com

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The (online) tool is inserting a dot character followed by a space before each author's name in the header of page 1. Thus:
Network Working Group . Quintin Zhao
^^
Octal dump of start of output:
0000000 \n \n \n \n N e t w o r k W o r k
0000020 i n g G r o u p
0000040
0000060 .
0000100 Q u i n t i n Z h a o \n

This doesn't happen on the old tool:
Network Working Group Quintin Zhao

Source file and output files [(2) from new tool, (3) from old] attached:

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Issue migrated from trac:189 at 2022-02-05 12:34:09 +0000

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@elwynd@dial.pipex.com uploaded file draft-zhao-mpls-mldp-protections-04-2013-07-14.xml (37.1 KiB)

Source file demonstrating problem

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@elwynd@dial.pipex.com uploaded file draft-zhao-mpls-mldp-protections-04-2013-07-14(2).txt (39.4 KiB)

Faulty output from new tool

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@elwynd@dial.pipex.com uploaded file draft-zhao-mpls-mldp-protections-04-2013-07-14(3).txt (39.4 KiB)

Correct output from old tool.

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@henrik@levkowetz.com changed priority from medium to minor

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@henrik@levkowetz.com commented

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Hmm. Interesting. This seems to be the result of providing an author surname attribute
without providing an initials attribute. It shouldn't behave quite like this, of course,
but I can see how it hasn't been caught by the current test suite. The workaround is
to let the surname attribute be the surname, rather than the full name, and provide the initials attribute:

    <author fullname="Quintin Zhao" initials="Q." surname="Zhao">
      <organization>Huawei Technology</organization>
      <address>
        <postal>
          <street>125 Nagog Technology Park</street>
          <city>Acton</city>
          <region>MA</region>
          <code>01719</code>
          <country>US</country>
        </postal>
        <email>quintin.zhao@huawei.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>
    <author fullname="Tao Chou" initials="T." surname="Chou">
      <organization>Huawei Technology</organization>
      <address>
        <postal>
          <street>156 Beiqing Rd</street>
          <city>Haidian District</city>
          <region>Beijing</region>
          <code>100095</code>
          <country>China</country>
        </postal>
        <email>tao.chou@huawei.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>
    <author fullname="Boris Zhang" initials="B." surname="Zhang">
      <organization>Telus Communications</organization>
      <address>
        <postal>
          <street>200 Consilium Pl Floor 15</street>
          <city>Toronto, ON M1H 3J3</city>
          <country>Canada</country>
        </postal>
        <phone></phone>
        <email>Boris.Zhang@telus.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>
    <author fullname="Emily Chen" initials="E." surname="Chen">
      <organization></organization>
      <address>
        <postal>
          <street>2717 Seville Blvd, Apt 1205</street>
          <city>Clearwater</city>
          <region>FL</region>
          <code>33764</code>
          <country>US</country>
        </postal>
        <email>emily.chen220@gmail.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>

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@tony@att.com changed status from new to closed

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@tony@att.com changed resolution from `` to fixed

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@tony@att.com commented

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revision 944 has fix-- check to make sure initial_list[0] is not empty before adding the period