incorrect handling of unnumbered sections

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resolution_fixed type_defect | by julian.reschke@gmx.de

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Consider an unnumbered top-level section last in . Whether it's numbered or not affects the numbering of the references section.

In the example, we get:

Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction
   2.  <xref> Tests
     2.1.  ...to <abstract> Element
     2.2.  ...to <aside> Element
     2.3.  ...to bare <artwork> Element
     2.4.  ...to <blockquote> Element
     2.5.  ...to <comment> Element
     2.6.  ...to <dl> Element
     2.7.  ...to <figure> Element
     2.8.  ...to <reference> Element
     2.9.  ...to <references> Element
     2.10. ...to <section> Element
     2.11. ...to unnumbered <section> Element
     2.12. ...to <section> Element inside <back>
     2.13. ...to unnumbered <section> Element inside <back>
     2.14. ...to <t> Element
   3.  Test Link Targets
     3.1.  Section Title
   Unnumbered Section Title
   5.  References
   Appendix A.  Appendix Title
   Unnumbered Appendix Title
   Author's Address

So the unnumbered section contributes to the numbering, but itself does not get numbered.

One way to fix this is to abort with an error, as per https://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc7991.html#element.section.attribute.numbered. The alternative would be to skip the section for the purpose of numbering (that's the approach now taken by rfc2629.xslt, in addition to a non-fatal error message).

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Issue migrated from trac:433 at 2022-02-05 12:50:33 +0000

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@julian.reschke@gmx.de uploaded file xref-tests-rfc7991.xml2rfcv3.unpg (14.5 KiB)

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@julian.reschke@gmx.de uploaded file xref-tests-rfc7991.xml (28.0 KiB)

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@henrik@levkowetz.com changed component from Version_3_cli_txt to v3 vocabulary, v2 xml2rfc

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@henrik@levkowetz.com changed status from new to closed

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@henrik@levkowetz.com changed resolution from `` to fixed

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@henrik@levkowetz.com commented

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Fixed in 3cd533b:

Added a preptool check for numbered sections occurring after or under unnumbered sections, and changed the code for Reference sections to not emit section numbers if the previous section was unnumbered. Fixes issue #433