Hi - > From: "Julian Reschke" <julian.resc...@gmx.de> > To: "Randy Presuhn" <randy_pres...@mindspring.com> > Cc: "IETF Discussion Mailing List" <ietf@ietf.org> > Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 10:13 AM > Subject: Re: Automatically updated Table of Contents with Nroff ... > Point is: nroff and xml2rfc share the advantage that they are simple > text based formats, which can be put under version control, and > collaborative editing/change control just works. Missing features can > simply implemented using automated pre- or post-processing stages. ...
With respect to boilerplate, xml2rfc lacks this advantage. *It* generates the boilerplate; the user has no way of knowing whether the option present in the source file will result in the same output text today as it did yesterday. From a configuration management / revision control perspective, this is highly undesirable. It would be much better to be able to "#include" a versioned source file for those bits. Randy _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
