On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:19:11 +0200
Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sam Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hi. I'm sitting here reviewing changes to a document to see if I
> > can last call it.
> >
> > As part of a response to AD review comments, one of the references
> > were changed. This document uses numeric references. Starting at
> > reference 16, everything was renumbered. That makes the diff a
> > pain.
> >
> > For this and many other reasons, I strongly encourage people to
> > avoid numeric references in their documents.
>
> That makes sense, but I believe the default for the xml2rfc tool is to
> produce numeric references. Does xml2rfc support symbolic references?
> If the defaults in xml2rfc is changed to symbolic references, I think
> we'd see that a lot of documents would adopt the new approach.
>
Use the line
<?rfc symrefs="yes" ?>
to get symbolic references.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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