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

On 2013-02-04 10:02, Ian Jacobs wrote:
> On 4 Feb 2013, at 9:56 AM, Paul Grosso wrote:
>
>> 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."
>
>> 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?

XHTML with color-coded revision indicators.

paul


>
> Ian
>
>> 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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>>>
>>>
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