Subject: Web Pages Project / M. Rose Draft on use of XML for RFCs

From: Burke Chris-CCB007 <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:30:50 -0600

This draft by M. Rose seems very much along the lines of what we discussed
at the last USWG meeting, in terms of a light-weight mark-up language for
RFCs. The Rose draft supports only ASCII artwork, but could be extended to
other types of illustration (such as simple raster images, EPS, etc).

Any thoughts on applicability of this draft to the web pages (WEIRD)
project, which was framed somewhat as an experiment in using a "richer"
format to present IETF content?

Chris Burke

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> 	Title		: Writing I-Ds and RFCs using XML
> 	Author(s)	: M. Rose
> 	Filename	: draft-mrose-writing-rfcs-00.txt
> 	Pages		: 69
> 	Date		: 17-Feb-99
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>    This memo presents a technique for using XML as a source format for
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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:30:53 -0600