Re: [Rfc-markdown] [xml2rfc] [irsg] character sets, was UPDATE regarding <u>

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Mon, 06 March 2023 00:17 UTC

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On 2023-03-06, at 01:01, Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net> wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 6, 2023, at 10:55, Carsten Bormann wrote:
>> I think it would be interesting to create a variety of targeted text 
>> extractors for RFCXML.
> 
> xmllint --xpath tends to work pretty well for that use case, at least in my experience.

Sure, but what do you tell XPath?  Sleuthing that out is the work I was thinking about.

> I also have a python library that I had unrealized plans to use: https://github.com/martinthomson/rfc-extract  (this supports markdown also)

Ich spreche leider nicht fließend Python.

Grüße, Carsten