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

On Wed, 2013-02-06 at 11:34 -0600, Ian Jacobs wrote:
> 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?

done.

Liam

> 
> 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/
> >>>>>> --
> >>>>>> Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org)    http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/
> >>>>>> Tel:                                      +1 718 260 9447
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>> --
> >>>> Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org)    http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/
> >>>> Tel:                                      +1 718 260 9447
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>> 
> >> --
> >> Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org)    http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/
> >> Tel:                                      +1 718 260 9447
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> > 
> > 
> 
> --
> Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org)    http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/
> Tel:                                      +1 718 260 9447
> 

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