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Hello,
last June I announced at xml-dev the beginning of Zvon RFC repository
project:
http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200106/msg00183.html
At this moment a very important milestone has been reached:
all on-line accessible RFCs were transformed to XML format and
processed:
http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200106/msg00183.html
The repository features:
- clickable table of contents
- titles on all levels are searchable
- RFC dependencies including the list of RFCs the current RFC is referred
by and W3C standards referring to the current RFC
- obsoleted RFCs have different style
- main indexes show obsolation chains
- index of humorous RFC ( some are really good :) )
I have started to harness the material to leverage the material
usefulness:
RFC status codes search -
http://zvon.org/tmRFC/RFC_share/PHP/numbersSearch.php
searches status codes of selected standards and links to relevant parts of
the specification
The repository is based on over 3100 XML files (200 - 10 000
lines long) manually tagged (with some parts automated by Python scripts,
and with a major emacs mode created for RFC processing.
It was not an easy job and it brought me quite a few steps toward a
lunatic asylum but the worst part is finally over.
I have corrected quite a few misconceptions in my head during the process,
e.g.:
- all characters in RFCs are from ASCII set
- there are only 99 ways how to specify chapters and other sections
- reference citations usually lead to some literature in Bibliography
section
- ...
- ...
but on the other hand I was amazed by a quality of text of many RFCs,
I must applaud the decision to use an unique integer as an identifier for
each RFC (it is a real pity W3C did not choose this way), and I felt a
touch of nostalgia ( several RFCs are several months older then me).
I hope you will enjoy the result.
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<firstName> Miloslav </firstName>
<surname> Nic </surname>
<mail> nicmila@systinet.com </mail>
<support> http://www.zvon.org </support>
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