need "isCodeComponent" attribute

[reschke]

(from https://tools.ietf.org/tools/xml2rfc/trac/ticket/322)

There should be a way to mark artwork/sourcecode to contain a "code component" in the sense of <​https://www.ietf.org/iesg/statement/copyright.html>, as proposed in <​https://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2629xslt/rfc2629xslt.html#ext-rfc2629.artwork>.

[paulehoffman]

This should be in both <artwork> and <sourcecode>. However, this feature should first be discussed in the places that deal with IPR issues.

[levkowetz]

Letting <artwork/> and <sourcecode/> render without and with <CODE STARTS>, respectively, would have the advantage of being both intuitive and providing an option to avoid the <CODE STARTS> delimiter if explicitly not wanted. If it is imperative to be able to use <sourcecode/> without the delimiter, we could add a flag to disable the rendering of the delimiter instead. Having a flag to enable the delimiter within artwork seems like overdoing things a bit -- I'd prefer to leave artwork without that option, since it seems so intuitive to couple it to <sourcecode/>.

[paulehoffman]

The recent discussion on the list shows that is useful for many things that do not want inserted, and that has certain legal meanings. Thus, I'm going to close this.

[reschke]

I don't understand this answer.

[paulehoffman]

That's good, because my answer was wrong. I misunderstood the request here. Reopening, and this issue should come to the list at some point.

[reschke]

See

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-levkowetz-xml2rfc-v3-implementation-notes-08#section-3.1.22

for Henrik's proposal.