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

Ron,

Thanks, that helps a lot! Lots of great tools out there.

Cheers,
Andy

On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 6:43 PM Ronald Tse <tse@ribose.com> wrote:

> Hi Andy,
>
> Relaton’s CLI (https://github.com/relaton/relaton-cli/) supports
> something like this:
>
> ——
> $ gem install relaton-cli
> $ relaton fetch --type=IETF "RFC 8660"
> ——
>
> STDOUT:
> ——
> <bibitem id="RFC8660" type="standard">
>   <fetched>2021-01-25</fetched>
>   <title format="text/plain" language="en" script="Latn">Segment Routing
> with the MPLS Data Plane</title>
>   <uri type="xml">
> https://xml2rfc.tools.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.8660.xml</uri>
>   <uri type="src">https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8660</uri>
>   <docidentifier type="IETF">RFC 8660</docidentifier>
>   <docidentifier type="rfc-anchor">RFC8660</docidentifier>
>   <docidentifier type="DOI">10.17487/RFC8660</docidentifier>
> …
>   <contributor>
>     <role type="editor"/>
>     <person>
>       <name>
>         <completename language="en">A. Bashandy</completename>
>       </name>
>       <affiliation>
>         <organization>
>           <name>Internet Engineering Task Force</name>
>           <abbreviation>IETF</abbreviation>
>         </organization>
>       </affiliation>
>     </person>
>   </contributor>
> ...
>   <language>en</language>
>   <script>Latn</script>
>   <abstract format="text/plain" language="en" script="Latn">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).</abstract>
>   <series type="main">
>     <title format="text/plain" language="en" script="Latn">RFC</title>
>     <number>8660</number>
>   </series>
>   <place>Fremont, CA</place>
> </bibitem>
> ——
>
> The output is Relaton XML, which you could re-format into the format
> desired using XPath utilities like xmllint or xmlstarlet.
>
> e.g.
> ——
> $ relaton fetch --type=IETF "RFC 8660"> foo.xml 2>/dev/null
> $ xmllint --xpath '/bibitem/abstract/text()' foo.xml
> Segment Routing (SR) leverages the source-routing paradigm.  …
> ——
>
> You could also output the bibtex format:
> ——
> $ relaton fetch --type=IETF --format=bibtex "RFC 8660"> foo.bib 2>/dev/null
> $ cat foo.bib
> @misc{RFC8660,
>   author = {Previdi, S. and Decraene, B. and Litkowski, S. and Shakir, R.},
>   publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force},
>   address = {Fremont, CA},
>   year = {2019},
>   month = dec,
>   timestamp = {2021-01-25},
>   url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8660},
>   month_numeric = {12}
> }
> ——
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Ron
>
> P.S. Relaton CLI supports references to most SDOs including ISO, IEC, etc
> using a unified bibliographic metadata model.
>
> _____________________________________
>
> Ronald Tse
> Ribose Inc.
>
> On Jan 25, 2021, at 5:39 AM, Andrew G. Malis <agmalis@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Mike,
>
> Thanks, not quite what I was looking for, but it might be useful as a
> basis for scripting.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 2:21 PM StJohns, Michael <msj@nthpermutation.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Maybe try this?
>> http://web-harvest.sourceforge.net/manual.php
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 12:04 Andrew G. Malis <agmalis@gmail.com> 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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>>>
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