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Henrik and anybody who's interested... I'm doing some writing about the HTTP 1.1, and I was frustrated that I can't make hypertext links to specific sections, and in general, it's sort of a pain to navigate. So I scratched the itch with a little perl script. I just updated http://www.w3.org/Protocols/ $Id: Overview.html,v 1.169 1999/07/31 16:24:46 connolly Exp $ to point to a hypertext version of the HTTP 1.1 draft standard: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 derived from RFC2616 by way of rfc2html.pl $Revision: 1.5 $ $Date: 1999/07/31 16:45:29 $ by Dan Connolly http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html The generated HTML is split into sections: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec1.html http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec2.html ... About the perl script: ============== http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2html.pl #!/usr/bin/perl # $Id: rfc2html.pl,v 1.6 1999/07/31 17:03:21 connolly Exp $ # # Usage: # perl rfc2html.pl rfc2616.txt >rfc2616.html # also creates rfc2616-secN.html for each section N # # Features # splits by section # marks up paragraphs and definition lists # marks up section headings with anchors # marks up TOC with hypertext links # marks up indendet sections as <pre> # creates well-formed XML output # # # TODO # update XML namespace declaration per XHTML spec # add link types (e.g. rel='bibref') # markup ul, ol in body text as such rather than as <pre> # markup references section with links to other RFCs and docs # generalize &convert() params: title, short title, basename, bibsection # for other RFCs # # BY # Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org> # http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ # # LICENSE # # Copyright (c) 1999 World Wide Web Consortium (W3C, http://www.w3.org/), # (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institut National de # Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Keio University). All # Rights Reserved. # # Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software # and its documentation for any purpose and without fee or # royalty is hereby granted, per the terms and conditions in # # W3C Intellectual Property Notice and Legal Disclaimers # http://www.w3.org/COPYRIGHT # 1999/07/28 13:54:29 ============== -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/Received on Saturday, 14 August 1999 04:00:52 UTC
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