xml2rfc

Bleeding-edge Development Version

The current development release is 1.34pre3. This is a preliminary implementation of the IETF Trust language of November, 2008 and February, 2009.

Here's the feature list:

• The “ipr” attribute of the <rfc> element now accepts seven additional values: trust200811, noModificationTrust200811, noDerivativesTrust200811 trust200902, noModificationTrust200902, noDerivativesTrust200902, and pre5378Trust200902.
• Use of the <appendix> element is now deprecated (no longer in the DTD), use the <section> element instead.

Here's the updated README file.

Experimental Conversion

Warning: This is a development version and its use should be considered experimental. The stable version is available from the main page and should be used for serious work in case of problems with this test version.

1. Download xml2rfc-dev as a zip or tgz file, or
2. Try your results in this handy converter form:

Citation Libraries

Helpful Hints

Normative References

If you need to have multiple references sections, try something like this:

    <back>
    <references title='Normative References'>
    ...
    </references>
    <references title='Informative References'>
    ...
    </references>
    </back>

That's right: the <references/> element may occur more than once in the back section, and has an optional 'title' attribute.

Including files

Use the XML external entity mechanism, e.g.,

    <?xml version='1.0'?>
    <!DOCTYPE rfc SYSTEM 'rfc2629.dtd' [

      <!ENTITY rfc2629 PUBLIC '' 'http://xml.resource.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.2629.xml'>

    ]>

    ...

    <t>This document was constructed using the <xref target="RFC2629" /> DTD.</t>

    ...

    <references>
    ...
    &rfc2629;
    ...
    </references>

Note that this syntax is rather pedantic, i.e., you declare the entity toward the top of your file and then you invoke it exactly once (using an "&") in the <references/> element to include it.

Take a look at this file, provided by Dan Kohn. In addition to showing a complete example, it also works with the XSL transformation written by Julian Reschke and the DTD. (Depending on the capabilities of your browser, instead of clicking on these links directly, you may want to download these three files using "Save Target As...")

To try out this sample, you'll need to put all three files in the same directory. Also, note that some XSLT processors disable the use of external entities, you may need to check "Preferences" to see if there's an option to enable their use.

Notes for Authors

Templates

The IETF Tools Team maintains a library of templates you can use for different kinds of drafts.

Using your source file

When submitting an Internet-Draft using the IETF Internet-Draft Submission Tool, you can upload the XML source file in addition to the text file. If your draft is approved for publication as an RFC, the RFC Editor will retrieve the XML file from the I-D repository, or you can submit it directly to the RFC Editor.

When published

To improve the quality of the citation library, send a copy of the updated XML file here. Thanks!