Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: xml2rfc
Version: 3.2.1
Summary: Xml2rfc generates RFCs and IETF drafts from document source in XML according to the IETF xml2rfc v2 and v3 vocabularies.
Home-page: https://tools.ietf.org/tools/xml2rfc/trac/
Author: Henrik Levkowetz
Author-email: henrik@levkowetz.com
License: BSD-3-Clause
Download-URL: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/xml2rfc
Description: Introduction
        ============
        
        The IETF_ uses a specific format for the standards and other documents it
        publishes as RFCs_, and for the draft documents which are produced when
        developing documents for publications.  There exists a number of different
        tools to facilitate the formatting of drafts and RFCs according to the
        existing rules, and this tool, **xml2rfc**, is one of them.  It takes as input
        an xml file which contains the text and meta-information about author names
        etc., and transforms it into suitably formatted output.  The input xml file
        should follow the grammars in RFC7749_ (for v2 documents) or RFC7991_ (for 
        v3 documents). Note that the grammar for v3 is still being refined, and 
        changes will eventually be captured in the `bis draft for 7991`_. 
        Changes not yet captured can be seen in the xml2rfc source `v3.rng`_.
        
        **xml2rfc** provides a variety of output formats. See the command line
        help for a full list of formats. It also provides conversion from v2 to
        v3, and can run the preptool_ on its input.
        
        .. _IETF: https://www.ietf.org/
        .. _RFCs: https://www.rfc-editor.org/
        .. _RFC7749: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7749
        .. _RFC7991: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7991
        .. _bis draft for 7991: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-iab-rfc7991bis
        .. _v3.rng: https://trac.tools.ietf.org/tools/xml2rfc/trac/browser/trunk/cli/xml2rfc/data/v3.rng
        .. _preptool: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7998
        
        Installation
        ============
        
        Installation of the python package is done as usual with 'pip install xml2rfc',
        using appropriate switches and/or sudo.
        
        Installation of support libraries for the PDF-formatter
        -------------------------------------------------------
        
        In order to generate PDFs, xml2rfc uses the WeasyPrint module, which
        depends on external libaries that must be installed as native packages
        on your platform, separately from the xml2rfc install.
        
        First, install the Cairo, Pango, and GDK-PixBuf library files on your
        system.  See installation instructions on the WeasyPrint Docs:
        
            https://weasyprint.readthedocs.io/en/stable/install.html
        
        (Python 3 is not needed if your system Python is 2.7, though).
        
        (On some OS X systems with System Integrity Protection active, you may
        need to create a symlink from your home directory to the library installation
        directory (often /opt/local/lib):
        
            ln -s /opt/local/lib ~/lib
        
        in order for weasyprint to find the installed cairo and pango libraries.
        Whether this is needed or not depends on whether you used macports or homebrew
        to install cairo and pango, and the homebrew / macport version.)
        
        Next, install the pycairo and weasyprint python modules using pip.
        Depending on your system, you may need to use 'sudo' or install in
        user-specific directories, using the --user switch.  On OS X in
        particular, you may also need to install a newer version of setuptools
        using --user before weasyprint can be installed.  If you install with 
        the --user switch, you may need to also set PYTHONPATH, e.g.,
        
            PYTHONPATH=/Users/henrik/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages
        
        for Python 2.7.
        
        The basic pip commands (modify as needed according to the text above)
        are:
        
            pip install 'pycairo>=1.18' 'weasyprint<=0.42.3'
        
        With these installed and available to xml2rfc, the --pdf switch will be
        enabled.
        
        For PDF output, you also need to install the Noto font set.  Download the full
        set from https://noto-website-2.storage.googleapis.com/pkgs/Noto-unhinted.zip,
        and install as appropriate for your platform.
        
        Usage
        =====
        
        xml2rfc accepts a single XML document as input and outputs to one or more conversion formats.
        
        **Basic Usage**: ``xml2rfc SOURCE [options] FORMATS...``
        
        Run ``xml2rfc --help`` for a full listing of command-line options.
        
        
        Changelog
        =========
        
        
        Version 3.2.1 (29 Sep 2020)
        ------------------------------------------------
        
        
          * Removed code dependent on libmagic and the python-magic requirement, as
            installation of python-magic doesn't always succeed.
        
          * Tweaked the error message emitted for unexpected content in elements 
            that don't permit text content to be slightly more readable for minor
            erroneous content by quoting the errant characters and placing
            short strings on the same line as the error message.
        
          * Refactored the code for the --version switch, to make it more 
            straightforward to include generator version information in generated html 
            pages, and added generator version information to generated HTML.
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        Version 3.2.0 (24 Sep 2020)
        ------------------------------------------------
        
        
          * Added a utility script that checks some test suite prerequisites, to 
            avoid for instance test errors because of missing python modules or fonts.  
            Related to issue #549.
        
          * Updated the list of tags that permit Latin script content without an 
            'ascii' attribute.
        
          * Changed the acceptable length of the title abbreviation for the running 
            page header in PDF output, and changed the warning to a note.
        
        
        
        
        
        
        Version 3.1.1 (13 Sep 2020)
        ------------------------------------------------
        
        
          * Fixed an issue with empty table cells that could cause an exception.
        
        
        
        
        
        
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Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
Classifier: Environment :: Console
Classifier: Operating System :: MacOS :: MacOS X
Classifier: Operating System :: Microsoft :: Windows
Classifier: Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Topic :: Text Processing
Classifier: Topic :: Text Processing :: Markup :: XML
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License
