Re: [xml2rfc-dev] Script to generate RFC reference including abstract?

Martin,

Thanks, that's an awesome use of curl, which I've used before for other
purposes.

And I had forgotten that the bibxml includes the abstracts.

Cheers,
Andy

On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 1:59 AM Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net> wrote:

> To get the reference:
> curl -sSf
> https://xml2rfc.tools.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.8446.xml
>
> To get just the abstract:
> curl -sSf
> https://xml2rfc.tools.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.8446.xml |
> \
>   xmllint --xpath '//abstract/t/text()' /dev/stdin
>
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2021, at 04:03, Andrew G. Malis wrote:
> > Just to save myself a bit of work if this already exists ....
> >
> > Have any of you written a script when, given a list of RFC numbers,
> > will generate an xml2rfc-ish reference and pull out the abstract for
> > each RFC? Something like, when given "8660", will produce:
> >
> >    [RFC8660]  Bashandy, A., Ed., Filsfils, C., Ed., Previdi, S.,
> >               Decraene, B., Litkowski, S., and R. Shakir, "Segment
> >               Routing with the MPLS Data Plane", RFC 8660,
> >               DOI 10.17487/RFC8660, December 2019,
> >               <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8660>.
> >
> >    Segment Routing (SR) leverages the source-routing paradigm.  A node
> >    steers a packet through a controlled set of instructions, called
> >    segments, by prepending the packet with an SR header.  In the MPLS
> >    data plane, the SR header is instantiated through a label stack.
> >    This document specifies the forwarding behavior to allow
> >    instantiating SR over the MPLS data plane (SR-MPLS).
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Andy
> >
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