Re: Writing Internet Drafts on a Macintosh

[James P. Salsman]

Patrick,

Thank you for your most helpful pointer:

> I recently had my first experience using the setup described by
> Marshall Rose in rfc2629 (Writing I-Ds and RFCs using XML) and was
> very pleased. You should be able to create the XML base in Word (or
> whatever) and use the referenced tools to produce both conforming text
> and html from the same base.

The tools referenced (xml2rfc) and the self-documenting rfc2629.*ml 
are presently at:

  http://xml.resource.org/authoring

> If you can't run the tools on your platform there is a website that
> you just submit the XML to and it will generate either text or HTML 
> as output.

  http://xml.resource.org

This system is very elegant, and I think it addresses Vernon Schryver's
astute points on the topic, with which I agree completely except that I 
don't think it is politically incorrect to accomodate "the fad format 
of the day" because there are usually good reasons for popular choices.

Cheers,
James