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ABNFs out of RFCs, was: Structured Headers: URI type (#782)

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Thu, 09 May 2019 14:50 UTC

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From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
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Subject: ABNFs out of RFCs, was: Structured Headers: URI type (#782)
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On 09.05.2019 16:40, Michael Sweet wrote:
> Julian,
>
>> On May 9, 2019, at 8:20 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
>> ...
>> For many specs, you can simply extract it from the XML source.
>
> First, a large number of RFCs were never submitted as XML, and even for those that were (like the IPP updates that became RFCs 8010 and 8011, later STD 92) I can't seem to find the XML sources!

I think you can obtain them from the RFC Editor if you can convince them
that you won't confuse them with the officially sanctioned plain text
files...

> Second, you need to know which figures contain ABNF...

<artwork type="abnf">

> The point was more that there is currently no common repository of ABNF associated by RFC, so importing rules from an RFC is a manual effort...

Understood and agreed for old specs. Once we move to the new RFC format
we should be able to do better.

Best regards, Julian

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