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RFC DTD (was "Binary XML" proposals)

• From: Christian Nentwich <c.nentwich@c...>
• To: Al Snell <alaric@a...>
• Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 12:22:21 +0100

> On a side note, we at RFC.net are wondering about using some hairy regexps
> to convert all the RFCs into XML documents with an appropriate RFC-DTD. If
> the IETF start producing things to this DTD, we can have stuff like
> standard markup for protocol headers. This, in turn, will mean that tools
> like tcpdump can parse the RFCs to figure out how to parse the
> packets... sweet, no?
> But a lot of work, which we don't have time for :-(

We have a lot of time.. and we've done a converter and a DTD, please
give us a month or two to get back to you all!

We can probably send some preliminary work to interested people on this
list..

Christian

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