Historic: FormatToolsPlan

RFC Format Tools Plan

Components

ElfTools

• PublicationFormatter
• Text Submission
• idnits

Strategy

Build the initial text converter, then go on with the 2to3 converter, preptool, and plaintext xml2rfc. At that point, interleave the idnits rewrite, and a second round of the plaintext converter (the first round would emit xml useful with the current xml2rfc, while the second round would emit v3 xml2rfc) and then finish with the html xml2rfc and pdf xml2rfc.

Soaring Hawk

• svgcheck
• RFClint
• XML Diff

Strategy

Phase 1: Most RFClint functionality, svgchecker, xmldiff (outputting a basic html file)

Phase 2: add interactive aspell to rfclint, xmldiff (advanced html file output), issue fixes

Phase 3: issue fixes

Released

2017	text converter to v2
	v2 to v3 converter
	text converter to v3
2018	preptool (though improvements are anticipated as the other tools advance)
	svgcheck
	xml diff phase 1
	rfclint phase 1
	xmldiff phase 2
	v3 to text (xml2rfc)
	rfclint phase 2
	final delivery rfclint, xmldiff, svgcheck
	v3 to html (xml2rfc)
	v3 to pdf (xml2rfc)
	idnits