rfc2xml

Tool to process an RFC or Internet Standard into XML. Structure can also be accessed directly within a seperate Python project.

Note that this is not a general purpose tool and contains some restrictions. This is currently really slow. This is due partly to to overhead from Python, the parsing library and some inefficient parser grammar.

Usage

python -m rfc2xml <filename> [--suppress-result]

Examples

Download an Internet Standard to process:

wget https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-quic-transport-19.txt

The tool can then be run on that file using the following command (in the top level src directory):

python -m rfc2xml draft-ietf-quic-transport-19.txt

Import

The tool can also be imported into a different python script and used there:

from rfc2xml import Rfc2Xml
with open("draft-ietf-quic-transport-19.txt") as fp:
    contents = fp.read()
dom = Rfc2Xml.parse(contents)