- From: Jim Whitehead <ejw@cse.ucsc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 12:25:35 -0700
- To: "WebDAV WG" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>, <julian.reschke@greenbytes.de>
Due to the volunteer efforts of Julian Reschke, XML (and nice HTML) versions of RFC 2518, the Redirect References specification, and the Ordered Collection specification, are now available via the WebDAV WG web site, at: http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/webdav/ These documents are compliant with RFC 2629 ("Writing I-Ds and RFCs using XML", by Marshall Rose), available at: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2629.txt In particular, this RFC states: 3.2 Converting to Text Format The author has written the xml2rfc tool [10], which reads the source file and produces both a text and HTML version of the document. (This memo was produced using the xml2rfc tool.) Note that xml2rfc isn't a validating tool, so it's a good idea to use either a validating editor or run a stand-alone validating parser prior to using the tool. Where reference [10] is: [10] http://memory.palace.org/authoring/ (See also http://xml.resource.org/). Since converting I-Ds and RFCs to text and HTML format has always been a *major* pain, and since Julian has gone to the effort of converting these documents to XML, I think it makes a lot of sense to start using the XML version as the original document format (switching from Word). RFC 2518: XML: http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/webdav/protocol/rfc2518.xml HTML: http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/webdav/protocol/rfc2518.html Redirect References Protocol: XML: http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/webdav/collection/draft-ietf-webdav-redirect ref-protocol-02.xml HTML: http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/webdav/collection/draft-ietf-webdav-redirect ref-protocol-02.html Ordered Collections Protocol: XML: http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/webdav/collection/draft-ietf-webdav-ordering -protocol-02.xml HTML: http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/webdav/collection/draft-ietf-webdav-ordering -protocol-02.html You probably won't be able to view the XML files directly in your browser, since it won't know the location of the XSLT (XML style sheet) file. The RFC 2629 XSLT file can be found at: http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/webdav/protocol/rfc2629.xslt. Chose the "Save As file" option to save the XML locally, and view it in a text editor (or "View Source" on the XML page). I'm very grateful to Julian for his efforts in converting these documents to XML, and pathfinding use of the XML I-D and RFC tools. Thank you! - Jim
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