RFC 7328 · INFORMATIONAL · 2014

Writing I-Ds and RFCs Using Pandoc and a Bit of XML

Overview

RFC 7328, “Writing I-Ds and RFCs Using Pandoc and a Bit of XML”, is an Informational document published in August 2014 by R. Gieben. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document presents a technique for using a Markdown syntax variant, called Pandoc, and a bit of XML (as defined in RFC 2629) as a source format for documents that are Internet-Drafts (I-Ds) or RFCs.

The goal of this technique (which is called Pandoc2rfc) is to let an author of an I-D focus on the main body of text without being distracted too much by XML tags; however, it does not alleviate the need to typeset some files in XML.

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