> Paul Hoffman / IMC writes:
> > At 1:22 PM -0400 9/2/03, Rosen, Brian wrote:
> > >2) Ability to cross reference documents
> >
> > That benefit only appears if all, or a significant proportion, of the
> > Internet Drafts are in XML or a similar format. That's not what you
> > proposed.
> It seems to me that a fairly simple hack could be
> consed up to generate HTML or whatever for current
> RFC's and drafts given .txt input which automatically
> goes the through the references section to make
> hyperlinks. In fact that would be a pretty
> nifty feature regardless of this debate...
Such hacks already exist
http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/
and work fairly well for the more recent RFCs, which follow a fairly
regular set of formatting rules. But internet-drafts are sufficiently
irregular in format that this approach doesn't seem to work all that well.
And why should you have to guess when you don't have to?
Ned
