Re: [Fwd: Request for in-place modification of XML 1.0 5E]

On 4 Feb 2013, at 10:34 AM, Paul Grosso wrote:

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> On 2013-02-04 10:02, Ian Jacobs wrote:
>> On 4 Feb 2013, at 9:56 AM, Paul Grosso wrote:
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>>> I will confirm on this week's telcon, but I have no objections
>>> in principle if the team wants to make these changes.
>>> 
>>> I would be curious to see Ian's reference [2] which I cannot
>>> because it is team-only.  While it isn't necessary, if either
>>> a copy of that message or at least a brief summary of what it
>>> says could be made available, I'd appreciate it.
>> There's nothing useful there. It was just a record of my having asked isi.edu to
>> put in place the redirect and their response that "Our ftp server can not handle redirects."
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>>> As far as making the actual changes, someone needs to decide
>>> if the changes (and "modified in place" notice) should be made
>>> only in the Overview.html or also in REC-xml-20081126-review.html
>>> and REC-xml-20081126.xml.
>> Good catch. I think useful in the .xml file. What's the -review file?
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> XHTML with color-coded revision indicators.

(I suggest not updating that one.)

Ian

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> paul
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>> Ian
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>>> I will augment xml-V10-5e-errata.html to include this modification
>>> which will ensure we consider this change when generating the next
>>> edition.
>>> 
>>> paul
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 2013-02-03 11:47, Liam R E Quin wrote:
>>>> I think this is sensible and we should just go ahead and do it: it's not
>>>> substantive and the process allows us to fix broken links.
>>>> 
>>>> Any objections if the Team does the suggested change? It should also be
>>>> reflected in the CVS version...
>>>> 
>>>> Liam
>>>> 
>>>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>>>> From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
>>>> To: [...]
>>>> Cc: [...]
>>>> Subject: Request for in-place modification of XML 1.0 5E
>>>> Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2013 11:11:38 -0600
>>>> 
>>>> Denis, Liam,
>>>> 
>>>> Tim Bray, co-editor of Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth Edition) [1] forwarded this message to me:
>>>> 
>>>> ===
>>>>> While viewing the XML recommendation at http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/ I noticed the link to BCP 47 (http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#RFC1766) is broken, it gives a 550 Directory Not Found.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Can this be fixed/changed to http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47?
>>>> ===
>>>> 
>>>> The broken URI is:
>>>>  ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/bcp/bcp47.txt
>>>> 
>>>> I contacted the people who manage isi.edu to ask them to restore it or create a redirect. They replied that they could not [2].
>>>> 
>>>> Therefore, per [3] I am requested an in-place modification to XML 1.0 5E to update the link. It turns out we need to replace
>>>> a single link with two:
>>>> 
>>>>  * Please link "RFC 4646: Tags for Identifying Languages" to
>>>>    http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4646
>>>> 
>>>>  * And "RFC 4647: Matching of Language Tags"  to:
>>>>    http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4647
>>>> 
>>>>  <p><strong>Note:</strong> On @@date@@ this specification was modified in place to replace broken links to RFC4646 and RFC4647.</p>
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you,
>>>> 
>>>> Ian
>>>> 
>>>> P.S. RFC4646 has been obsoleted, but we should not update the reference in XML 1.0 5E.
>>>> 
>>>> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xml-20081126/
>>>> [2] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Team/w3t-archive/2013Feb/0000.html
>>>> [3] http://www.w3.org/2003/01/republishing/
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