RFC Errata
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Status: Reported (1)
RFC 7998, ""xml2rfc" Version 3 Preparation Tool Description", December 2016
Source of RFC: IAB
Errata ID: 7169
Status: Reported
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Carsten Bormann
Date Reported: 2022-10-16
Section 5.5.1 says:
5. If an <artwork> element has type='binary-art', the data needs to be in an "src" attribute with a URI scheme of "data:". If the "src" URI scheme is "file:", "http:", or "https:", resolve the URL. Replace the "src" attribute with a "data:" URI, and add an "originalSrc" attribute with the value of the URI. For the "http:" and "https:" URI schemes, the mediatype of the "data:" URI will be the Content-Type of the HTTP response. For the "file:" URI scheme, the mediatype of the "data:" URI needs to be guessed with heuristics (this is possibly a bad idea). This also fails for content that includes binary images but uses a type other than "binary-art". Note: since this feature can't be used for RFCs at the moment, this entire feature might be
It should say:
5. There is no step 5.
Notes:
binary-art is an undefined concept in RFC799x. This paragraph appears to be a remnant of an earlier attempt to accommodate something called that way, but the process didn't even result in a complete sentence (and certainly not any semantics).
'binary-art' needs to be removed from RFC 7998 (and its apocryphal mention in RFC 7991) as its presence is actively confusing.