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Re: please review rfc-index.xml



Well, you could start with
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rsync-help.html...

---aaron

Fred Baker wrote:
> At 06:31 PM 3/18/2003 -0800, Bob Braden wrote:
> >Would you care to give a testimonial? ;=)
> 
> Well, think about it this way. Every night, I have a job that runs that 
> generates:
> 
>     ftp://ftpeng.cisco.com/fred/internal/cisco-internet-drafts.html
>     ftp://ftpeng.cisco.com/fred/internal/stds.html
> 
>     ftp://ftpeng.cisco.com/fred/rfc-index/rfc.html
>     ftp://ftpeng.cisco.com/fred/rfc-index/drafts.html
>     ftp://ftpeng.cisco.com/fred/rfc-index/std.html
> 
> The first two are only visible within Cisco; the others are kept visible 
> outside, and at least one of them is pointed to from the RFC Editor's page.
> 
> I generate them from http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/1id-index.txt and 
> ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc-index.txt. I do this using a 
> collection of awk scripts.
> 
> Think about it.
> 
> It would be really nice if I could start from something moderately regular, 
> that had the right information, and one could imagine generating them in a 
> different order, with the abstract, or etc.
> 
> I'm all for it...