[rfc-i] Potential RFC format approach: XML

[John Levine]

>> We can't be that unique in our needs that we can't use commercial tools.
>
>Although I don't fully agree with this, I don't mind having that as a
>requirement.  Therefore, our choices are Word or HTML.

There are a wide variety of XML editors, you know.  Some are WYSIWYG,
some are just emacs-style text editors with a mode to help edit the
tags.  

As a concrete example, a WYSWYG XML editor called xxe has a quite
usable freeware version, as well as a fancier paid version, and a
Google Code profile for editing xml2rfc.  It formats the text as you
write, like Word does.

I'm not a fan of WYSIWYG editors, but I find xxe no worse than Word.  It's
written in Java so it runs on lots of platforms.

See http://www.xmlmind.net/xmleditor/ for more info.  It's in the FreeBSD
ports collection, there's probably linux packages too.

R's,
John