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Date:      Tue, 5 Jun 2012 12:49:41 -0700
From:      Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-ports@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/security/vuxml vuln.xml
Message-ID:  <CAF6rxgnfQgtsV=B4wpczMmypesXW5dr2YdUQX-NAQVpS3bV0Gg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 5 June 2012 11:30, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Why does the same URL need to appear twice? And if this is necessary,
> why does 'make validate' not report the error?

The "cite" url is not show on the page at all. It is used for semantic
value only. The reference is actually shown to the end user on the
page.

make validate is necessary, but not sufficient. It used to only check
the XML validity and I recently made it check "tidy" output as well.
It does not check other aspects of VuXML.

> The way this ends up formatted in the HTML is:
>
> References
> CVE Name =C2=A0CVE-2012-1667
> URL =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 http://www.isc.org/software/bind/advisories/cve-=
2012-1667
>
> That makes it look like the ISC site is the canonical URL for the CVE,
> but obviously it's not. The "CVE-2012-1667" on the page does render as a
> URL, but in my browser at least it's not got the usual decoration to
> indicate that it is actually a URL, even though it works. OTOH, the
> [source] link to the "ISC Reports" section looks and works as I would
> expect.

This seems to be a problem with the way the page is rendered. Perhaps
there should be a black border between each row?

> Even with the few of these that I've done it's still more than most of
> our committers, and I'm still confused by this. If we want to get better
> participation from a wider variety of our committers it needs to be
> simpler.

Agreed.  Steve Wills has a web page which generates valid XML to use.
If there is anything else I could do to help make the process easier
please let me know.

--=20
Eitan Adler
Source & Ports committer
X11, Bugbusting teams



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