ID-nits [was Re: suggestions (voting)]

[Marshall Rose]

> My fantasy is that I could run a draft through a single tool that does
> all the automateable tests and sends me a report. I don't want to have
> to, by hand, extract the MIB from a document, clean up all the damnable
> ASCII page formating, and process it through smilint, then extract the
> bibliography, clean it up, and process that through reflint, and so on.
> 
> How about a nice, simple, tagged input format that has semantic meanings
> like "This is a mib, check it with smilint" and "this is a normative
> reference, validate that the URL resolves".

so, basically, you'd like something added to xml2rfc so that when it
encounters <artwork/> with a particular type that it runs a program
to do the validation?
    
/mtr