multiple defects in the cli

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owner:jbothun@concentricsky.com resolution_fixed type_defect | by miek@miek.nl

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Hello,

I just started playing with xml2rfc version 2, to see how
it works wrt version 1 and pandoc2rfc. Version two seems
to work OK, and creates a nice looking text file. I made
the following observations.

It seems the Roman list style isn't supported anymore --
this was a hidden feature in xml2rfc version 1:

 WARNING: No %c or %d found in list format string: format %i.

Or uppercase:

 WARNING: No %c or %d found in list format string: format %I.

Also non Roman uppercase letters don't work anymore:

 WARNING: No %c or %d found in list format string: format %C.

I would consider that a bug.

Also, lines like:

 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>

Halfway through the document, make the parsing fail. xml2rfc(1) handles
this OK (just skips it, I assume?) These lines are easily created when
cutting and pasting a reference into your doc.

That's a feature, caused by using a proper XML parser.

xml2rfc(1) uses two parameters on the command line:

 xml2rfc<infile>.xml<outfile>.txt

xml2rfc(2) discards the second one and writes.txt

I'm not a fan of xml2rfc(1)'s behavior, but making xml2rfc(2)
behave different makes upgrading harder...

I don't think it makes a big difference; most people do not run local versions anyway right now.

Things like:

 <section title="section" anchor="section">
 <xref target="section"/>.

are expanded to "Section 2.1" in xml2rfc(1) and to see "[section]"
in xml2rfc(2).

That's a bug.

xml2rfc(1) add two spaces after a end-of-sentence dot, xml2rfc(2) one:

 1: "back" section of an RFC.  The easiest way is to create a template
 2: "back" section of an RFC. The easiest way is to create a template XML

That's a bug.

In hanging paragraphs the same happens, two spaces for xml2rfc(1) and one
space for xml2rfc(2).

grtz,
Miek Gieben

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Issue migrated from trac:37 at 2022-02-05 12:24:06 +0000

[ietf-svn-bot]

@henrik@levkowetz.com commented

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From Alice 2012-04-18:

AFAICT, the only one remaining from Miek's list:

• lost some functionality of customized lists. e.g. list style="format %C", "format %I", "format %i" don't work. (I have confirmed these.)
  Ones that Miek listed that appear to have been fixed:
• xref with target of section anchor has wrong text output.
• two spaces after period.

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@jbothun@concentricsky.com commented

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Fixed at 597

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@jbothun@concentricsky.com changed status from new to closed

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@jbothun@concentricsky.com changed resolution from `` to fixed