silent information loss when formatting <postal>

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resolution_fixed type_enhancement | by julian.reschke@gmx.de

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In v3 mode, the formatter formats postal addresses according to the detected local of the address.

This leads to cases where information is silently dropped (such as for German addresses).

There are also cases where information is normalized (such as expanding "USA").

In both cases, the formatter should inform the user about these omissions/rewrites.

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Issue migrated from trac:437 at 2022-02-05 12:50:50 +0000

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@henrik@levkowetz.com changed component from Version_3_cli_txt to v3 vocabulary, v2 xml2rfc

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@mahoney@nostrum.com commented

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I'm also seeing issues with . The information tagged with isn't in the output (in this example, I modified the author name and address but kept the structure the same):

<author initials="J." surname="Doe" fullname="John Doe">

    <organization>Example, Inc.</organization>
    <address>

        <postal>

            <street>Parsec, Stonefort, Wesley</street>
            <city>Swindon</city>
            <region>Wilts</region>
            <country>UK</country>

        </postal>
        <email>​john@example.com</email>

    </address>

</author>

Renders:

John Doe
Example, Inc.
Parsec, Stonefort, Wesley
Swindon
United Kingdom
Email: ​john@example.com

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@mahoney@nostrum.com commented

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After more digging, I ran xml2rfc with the --verbose option and was told:

draft-ietf-bfcpbis-rfc4582bis-16.xml(81): Warning: Postal address part filled in, but not used: : Wilts

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@henrik@levkowetz.com commented

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Yes. There is a warning that isn't used for UK addresses, but it's silenced and only visible with --verbose, because of earlier complaints about Postal address warnings. I'm going to revert that silencing.

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@henrik@levkowetz.com commented

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From 30a1dcd:

Reverted the silencing of warnings related to postal address input. Addresses issue #437.

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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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Will wait with closing this until responses on the new behaviour is in. Lowering the priority after commit 30a1dcd.

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@henrik@levkowetz.com changed status from new to closed

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@henrik@levkowetz.com changed resolution from `` to fixed