Re: Writing Internet Drafts on a Macintosh

[Patrik F�ltstr�m]

At 11.21 -0500 01-02-22, Keith Moore wrote:
>  > Then, IMO ietf needs to define a set of XML tags and instead of 'well
>>  defined' or valid HTML we will have 'valid' XML and it will be indexable
>>  and the same every time, otherwise it won't render. :)
>
>a fine idea and certanily doable, though it wouldn't allow people
>to produce or read I-Ds any more easily than they can do so now.
>tools for creatng (something resembling) HTML and for reading it
>abound; tools for manipulating XML exist but are not as widely deployed.

The XML DTD is defined. You use the XML source to create ASCII which 
becomes the acrchival format. The XML can be saved _aswell_ (just 
like the postscript, nroff source or whatever).

There are even people which have the RFC-Index.txt (sort of) file in 
XML format so it is easy to cut&paste and create the references 
section.

   paf