This old thread
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/oauth/1ajE-d3nVOFRGLbwMmPViDhEdqw/
has some discussion of working with/around that particular quirk of the
htmlizing tool.

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 2:34 AM Vittorio Bertocci <vittorio.bertocci=
40auth0....@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:

> Thank you for bringing this up Benjamin, you saved me from a long wild
> goose chase!
> It' good to know that there's a new rfc format version, but I am a bit
> worried about venturing there given that I am barely managing the v2 as it
> is __ v3 still feels pretty experimental, and other than this issue, this
> spec doesn't give a lot of opportunities to take advantage of the new
> features (SVG etc).
> Wondering whether I can find a periphrase to express the same notion
> without triggering the script, e.g. omitting the word section or changing
> the order.
> Thx
> V.
>
> On 4/24/20, 19:02, "Benjamin Kaduk" <ka...@mit.edu> wrote:
>
>     Just on the xml2rfc bits...
>
>     On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 07:26:40AM +0000, Vittorio Bertocci wrote:
>     >
>     > > Link to section 4.1.2 of SCIM Core is actually linking to section
> 4.1.2 of this doc.
>     > Oh wow. That’s a feature of XML2RFC,… my source simply says by
> section 4.1.2 of SCIM Core  in a <t> block, and the processor interpret it
> as an internal link. I’ll need to dig on how to prevent that from happening
> for this instance. Good catch!
>
>     The short form is "you can't".
>
>     You're using the "v2" XML format for xml2rfc, which produces as various
>     output formats text, pdf, and "htmlized" output.  The "htmlized"
> output is
>     called that and not "html" because it's the result of taking the text
>     output and running a script to turn common constructions in I-Ds and
> RFCs
>     into hopefully-useful HTML formatting.  In this case, "Section N"
> outside
>     of "Section N of [bracketed-reference]" is assumed to be "Section N of
> the
>     current document", and that's all that the htmlization script is going
> to
>     give you, since it's not working with the semantic richness of the XML
>     source.
>
>     We do, however, as of fairly recently have a "v3" XML format, which is
>     capable of producing native HTML output that includes SVG figures and
> the
>     other exciting features of "v3 XML".  For an example, see
>     https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-tsvwg-datagram-plpmtud-19.html .
>
>     I personally haven't done any v2-to-v3 conversions yet (too busy
> reading to
>     have time to do much writing), but the FAQ entry for doing so is at
>
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/materials/FAQ-xml2rfcv3.html#name-how-do-i-convert-my-xml-fil
>     .
>
>     Hope that helps,
>
>     Ben
>
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