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

On 6 Feb 2013, at 10:54 AM, Paul Grosso wrote:

> The XML Core WG has no objections to the Team implementing
> the edits-in-place to
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xml-20081126/Overview.html
> and
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xml-20081126/REC-xml-20081126.xml
> to correct the obsolete link issues wrt BCP47/RFC 4646/RFC 4647.
> 
> [If someone wants to make parallel changes to XML 1.1 2nd Ed,
> that's fine too.]
> 
> Once those changes have been published, I will update
> the XML 1.0 5th Ed Errata at
> http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-V10-5e-errata
> to reflect those changes (and this will ensure these
> changes will make it into any future edition).

Thanks, Paul.

Liam, can you give your ok to the Webmaster then?

Ian


> 
> paul
> 
> On 2013-02-04 13:16, Ian Jacobs wrote:
>> On 4 Feb 2013, at 10:34 AM, Paul Grosso wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.
>> (I suggest not updating that one.)
>> 
>> Ian
>> 
>>> 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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