Re: [Tools-discuss] Internet Draft Index Files Updates -- XML and HTML

[Fred Baker <fred at cisco.com>]

I actually would want to change one thing; I would like to add the  
author's email address to the XML file. Reason - I have some tools  
that I would like to extract it using.

On Aug 17, 2009, at 7:30 PM, Fred Baker wrote:

> OK, dumb question.
>
> We have tools that generate files like the attached. They are in the  
> xml2rfc toolset. Any chance we could pull these together into an XML  
> database similar to that of the RFC Editor's?
>
> <reference.I-D.draft-hixie-thewebsocketprotocol-34.xml>
>
> On Aug 17, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for this.
> >
> > Is there any reason not to add the stream info to the .txt version
> > of the index?
> >
> > Regards
> >  Brian
> >
> > On 2009-08-15 07:42, RFC Editor wrote:
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > FYI, we have added stream information to RFC indices (XML and  
> > > HTML) as
> > > mentioned in Section 6 of
> > > draft-iab-streams-headers-boilerplates-08. Stream is as defined in  
> > > RFC
> > > 4844 (IETF, IAB, IRTF, or Independent) or Legacy*. In the case of  
> > > IETF
> > > stream, the area and WG acronym are included.
> > >
> > > The following files will be updated on Monday (17 August 2009) to
> > > include Stream information:
> > >
> > > Hyperlinked index of RFCs:
> > > http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-index.html  (ascending by RFC number)
> > > http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-index2.html (descending by RFC number)
> > >
> > > XML index of RFCs:
> > > ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc-index.xml
> > >
> > > XML schema:
> > > ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc-index.xsd
> > > Note: The new elements are <stream>, <area>, and <wg_acronym>.
> > >
> > > Each of these files is linked to from
> > > http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html.
> > >
> > > *As noted previously (regarding metadata pages), some RFCs are  
> > > marked
> > > Legacy, indicating that source information was not recorded for this
> > > RFC; we are working on updating this information for RFCs for  
> > > which it
> > > exists.
> > >
> > > Thank you.
> > >
> > > RFC Editor
> > >
> > > > From Section 6 of draft-iab-streams-headers-boilerplates-08:
> > >
> > >  Adding a reference to the stream in the header of RFCs is only one
> > >  method for clarifying from which stream an RFC originated.  The RFC
> > >  editor is encouraged to add such indication in e.g., indices and
> > >  interfaces.
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