Convert text-format RFCs and Internet-Drafts to .xml format
Project description
Internet-Draft text to XML Conversion Tool
This tool, ‘id2xml’, is intended for use by the RFC-Editor staff, in order to produce a first xml2rfc-compatible XML version from text-only Internet-Draft submissions.
id2xml may also be useful for Internet-Draft authors who wish to start working on a new version of an older draft or RFC, for which no xml2rfc-compatible XML source is available.
Version 1.0.x can process the drafts specified in the development Statement of Work to XML files acceptable to xml2rfc, and can also process a number of other test files to acceptable XML. Missing is internal <xref/> links to figures and tables.
The XML produced follows RFC 7749 [1] in version 1.x of the tool, and will follow RFC 7991 [2] in version 2.x, which will be released once support is available to process XML sources which follows the RFC 7991 vocabulary.
Changelog
Version 1.0.3 (01 Jul 2017)
This release tweaks some regular expressions and other items to improve processing, based on feedback from the RFC Editor staff, but does not provide any new functionality.
Added recognition of series info of the form ‘RFC1234’ in addition to the form ‘RFC 12334’. Added recognition of ‘Internet Draft’ on the first page left column, in addition to ‘Internet-Draft’. Added some guidance to the reference parsing failure message. Added another reference pattern.
Tweaked the section number regexp.
Added acceptance of day of month in footer line date. This improves extraction of short title, too.
Be more permissive regarding blank lines in the author address format.
Version 1.0.2 (18 Jun 2017)
This is a bugfix release which addressess some additional issues raised by the RFC Editor staff:
Set the full organization name in the author element from the information in the authors’ addresses section, and using what was found on the first page, if different, as the abbrev attribute.
Changed the handling of quotations of RFCs with numbers below 1000 to always use zero-padded numbers, to match what the bibxml libraries use; and to insert entity references for those, instead of in-place <reference/> entries. Fixes an issues reported by the RFC-Editor staff.
Changed text-table identification to not try to handle one-row tables as texttables. Fixes an issues reported by the RFC-Editor staff.
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