[xiph-rtp] editing format

[Jean-Marc Valin]

I think the Speex draft might have been written with xml2rfc already but
I'm not sure and I haven't been able to get in contact with Greg yet.

	Jean-Marc

On jeu, 2004-10-21 at 20:05 +1000, wrote:
> Hi xiph-rtp people,
> 
> I have a suggestions to make about the file format in which we edit the RTP I-Ds.
> 
> Editing documents such as
>   http://speex.org/drafts/draft-herlein-speex-rtp-profile-02.txt
> or
>   http://svn.xiph.org/tags/vorbis/libvorbis-1.1.0/doc/draft-kerr-avt-vorbis-rtp-03.txt
> directly in txt format is a pain in the neck, because you have to take care of page breaks, boilerplate, formatting, correct dates etc.
> 
> My proposal is therefore to move to using xml2rfc as editing format.
> This also the way we're doing it with the Annodex I-Ds (see http://svn.annodex.net/standards/).
> 
> Then, there is an xml document pre I-D that contains all the text and is edited and stays in svn.
> To create the txt (or even a html) version of the I-D, you run it through xml2rfc (it's in debian), or alternatively use the online interface at http://xml.resource.org/.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> I'd volunteer to make the first change from the txt documents to the xml versions.
> 
> Cheers,
> Silvia.
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