Re: A modest proposal - allow the ID repository to hold xml

[Iljitsch van Beijnum]

IANAXE*, so I may be saying something stupid here, but...

Wouldn't it be possible to come up with a DTD that makes it possible to 
tag all the different parts of a draft or an RFC to enable all the 
automated processing we love so much, but in such a way that when all 
the <.*> sequences are removed, the document in current RFC format 
emerges?

This wouldn't lead to authoritativeness problems, and it should allow 
taking a draft or RFC and covert it back to an editable document 
without making the draft/RFC itself irresistibly editable. And it 
doesn't make any assumptions about the format of RFCs, so it shouldn't 
be a problem to bring older RFCs under this regime.

* I am not an XML expert