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IETF RFCs haven’t been plain text for quite some years. RFC 2629 (June 1999) defined the first XML vocabulary, and RFC 7990 (December 2016) completed the proces
by chrismorgan 4y ago
IETF RFCs haven’t been plain text for quite some years. RFC 2629 (June 1999) defined the first XML vocabulary, and RFC 7990 (December 2016) completed the process of declaring an XML format the canonical source, rather than plain text. To learn more, start at https://www.rfc-editor.org/rse/format-faq/ https://www.rfc-editor.org/rse/format-faq/.
- Karunamon 4y agoThat's just for ease of translation into other formats, right? No human is reading/implementing the XML.
- chrismorgan 4y agoI don’t know altogether. I know it’s common to author in something else and then convert into the canonical XML form, but I’d be surprised if it wasn’t also common to author in the XML format. It’s not an onerous format.