- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 9 May 2019 16:48:08 +0200
- To: Michael Sweet <msweet@apple.com>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
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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