Network Working Group J. Hildebrand, Ed.
Internet-Draft Cisco Systems, Inc.
Intended status: Informational H. Flanagan, Ed.
Expires: April 30, 2015 RFC Editor
October 27, 2014
HyperText Markup Language Request For Comments Format
draft-hildebrand-html-rfc-04
Abstract
This document defines the HTML format that will be rendered from the
canonical XML format for an RFC. The HTML output will include a
default CSS to enable page layout.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. Requirements for the HTML Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. HTML Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4. HTML Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5. Prologue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5.1. DOCTYPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5.2. Root Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5.3. Head Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5.3.1. Charset Declaration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5.3.2. Document Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5.3.3. Document metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5.3.4. Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.4. Document Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.5. Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5.6. Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5.7. Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5.8. IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5.9. Pilcrows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
6. Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6.1. <abstract> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6.2. <address> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6.3. <annotation> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6.4. <area> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6.5. <artwork> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
6.5.1. Text Artwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
6.5.2. SVG Artwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
6.6. <aside> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
6.7. <author> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6.8. <b> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6.9. <back> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6.10. <bcp14> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6.11. <blockquote> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6.12. <boilerplate> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
6.13. <city> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
6.14. <code> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
6.15. <country> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
6.16. <cref> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
6.17. <date> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
6.18. <dd> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
6.19. <displayreference> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
6.20. <dl> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
6.21. <dt> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
6.22. <em> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
6.23. <email> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
6.24. <eref> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
6.25. <figure> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
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6.26. <front> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
6.27. <i> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
6.28. <iref> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
6.29. <keyword> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
6.30. <li> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
6.31. <link> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6.32. <middle> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6.33. <name> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6.34. <note> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6.35. <ol> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6.36. <organization> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6.37. <phone> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6.38. <postal> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
6.39. <postalLine> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
6.40. <refcontent> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
6.41. <reference> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
6.42. <referencegroup> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
6.43. <references> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
6.44. <region> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
6.45. <rfc> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
6.46. <section> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
6.47. <seriesInfo> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
6.48. <sourcecode> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
6.49. <street> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
6.50. <strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
6.51. <sub> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
6.52. <sup> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
6.53. <t> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
6.54. <table> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
6.55. <tbody> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
6.56. <td> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
6.57. <tfoot> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
6.58. <th> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
6.59. <thead> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
6.60. <title> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
6.61. <tr> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
6.62. <tt> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
6.63. <ul> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
6.64. <uri> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
6.65. <workgroup> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
6.66. <xref> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
9. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
10.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
10.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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1. Introduction
As described in [I-D.flanagan-rfc-framework], the RFC Series is
changing. One of those changes includes the RFC Editor publishing a
non-canonical HTML version of RFCs.
This memo describes the HTML format that will be used as one of the
publication formats for the RFC Series. It defines a strict subset
of HTML appropriate for RFC Series documents. The visual layout of
the document will be defined through a cascading style sheet (CSS)
[W3C.REC-CSS2-20110607]. The CSS will be included in the HTML file
but will be described in a separate document.
2. Requirements for the HTML Format
This section lists the design requirements used to create the HTML
format described in this document. These requirements build on those
found in [RFC6949].
The HTML has to render correctly on a list of browsers versions that
the RFC Editor will keep up to date outside of this document.
These requirements are expected to change in the future to reflect
the expectation that HTML rendering will be required for current
versions of browsers and platforms, while ideally continuing to
render correctly on earlier versions.
The HTML documents may be re-rendered from the canonical XML format
in the future to ensure the ongoing readability of the documents.
The intent is that any re-rendering would be due to exceptional
circumstances rather than for minor annoyances.
The HTML must display adequately in at least one text-based browser.
Some consumers of the RFC series can only access the series on text-
based terminals.
The HTML document will be self-contained, without requiring external
files for images, CSS, JavaScript, or the like. This will allow the
HTML file to be moved over various non-HTTP transports (such as
e-mail, FTP, and rsync) without breakage.
Any use of JavaScript in the HTML document will not negatively impact
the ability to read the document. Some consumers of the RFC series
routinely disable JavaScript for security purposes.
The HTML document will allow easy local override of the default CSS
formatting. This will allow users who have a different visual style
that they prefer to make RFCs display with that style without having
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to alter the contents of the HTML document. This might also be
valuable for allowing people with specific accessibility needs to use
a customized CSS.
HTML tags in documents will rarely have attributes whose only purpose
is to affect the rendered styling, and those will only be used if it
would not be possible to specify that styling in CSS.
Both user-defined and autogenerated anchors must be supported and
linkable, with user-defined anchors appearing in an "id" attribute.
Autogenerated anchors will be generated for every heading, paragraph,
and so on, not just those that do not have user-defined anchors.
User-defined anchors may, and autogenerated anchors will, appear next
to paragraphs, figures, tables, blockquotes, and section titles.
All section, subsections, figures, and paragraphs should have stable
numbered link anchors. Additionally, anchors expressed in the source
XML should be exposed as anchors in the HTML as well.
The HTML must make it easy to separate sections along with all of
their subsections into separate files. This will make creating EPUB
documents easier in the future.
The abstract must be marked up or tagged in a way that popular search
engines will extract it as a summary.
The format will consist of a subset of HTML deemed to be widely-
implementd by common browsers at the time the specification is
created, likely to continue to be widely-implemented, and unlikely to
cause security issues. This will maximize the chances that future
HTML renderers (such as new web browsers) will continue to produce
readable text from the HTML format without the format needing to be
changed frequently.
Normative information must be easily accessible to the following
consumers:
o People with impaired vision, including those that use large fonts
and those that use screen readers
o People with difficulty distinguishing between colors
o People who use devices with small screens, such as cell phones
o Other groups TBD
Specific instances where goals for accessibility are important in the
design choices of the format have been called out in the text.
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NOTE: designing for these consumers does not preclude the use of
features they cannot use, but does require that key semantic data is
not lost when read using the tools and settings that are required by
a given constituency.
3. HTML Version
The RFC Editor will periodically determine which version of the HTML
specification will be referenced for tools generating the format
defined in this document. The starting version will be that defined
in [W3C.PR-html5-20140916], commonly known as "HTML5". Although the
HTML specification mandates several of syntax and structure rules in
this document, they are called out here for emphasis.
4. HTML Syntax
The processor emitting HTML from the XML source will follow these
rules:
o The HTML source is encoded as UTF-8, as specified in [RFC3629].
o The document is valid HTML.
o Double quotes (U+0022 QUOTATION MARK: ") are used to quote
attribute values unless the HTML specification forbids quoting a
particular attribute.
o Each logical line is terminated solely with a \n (U+000A: LINE
FEED), otherwise known as "Unix-style" line endings.
o Other than \n (U+000A: LINE FEED), code points less than " "
(U+0020: SPACE) (otherwise known as "control characters") are not
used. Any character references that would generate these code
points (e.g., 	) may not be used. NOTE: this rule
explicitly forbids \t (U+0009: CHARACTER TABULATION), \f (U+000C:
FORM FEED), and \r (U+000D: CARRIAGE RETURN) from appearing in the
source.
o Comments in the canonical XML, if any, will not be copied into the
HTML.
o The HTML source will be pretty-printed, using whatever consistent
rules the tooling team deems best.
NOTE: none of these rules affect the rendered output of the HTML, but
are intended to increase the chance that difference tools that
operate on the HTML source easier to write.
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5. Prologue
The front matter of the HTML format contains processing information,
metadata of various types, and styling information that applies to
the document as a whole. This section describes HTML that is not
necessarily a direct transform from the XML format. For more details
on each of the tags that generate content in this section, see
Section 6.
5.1. DOCTYPE
The DOCTYPE of the document is "html", which declares that the
document is compliant with HTML5. The document will start with
exactly this string:
<!DOCTYPE html>
5.2. Root Element
The root element of the document is <html>. This element includes a
lang attribute, whose value is a [RFC5646] language tag describing
the natural language of the document. The language of the RFC Series
is English and so the language tag to be included is 'en'.
5.3. Head Element
The root <html> will contain a <head> element that contains the
following elements, as needed.
5.3.1. Charset Declaration
In order to be correctly processed by browsers that load the HTML
using a mechanism that does not provide a valid MIME content-type or
charset (such as from a local file system using a "file:" URL), the
HTML <head> element contains a <meta> element, with charset attribute
with value 'utf-8'.
5.3.2. Document Title
The contents of the <title> element from the XML source will be
placed inside an HTML <title> element in the header.
5.3.3. Document metadata
The following <meta> elements will be included:
o author - comma-separated <fullname>s of all of the <author>s from
the XML source
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o description - the abstract from the XML source
o generator - the name and version number of the software used to
create the HTML
o keywords - comma-separated <keyword>s from the XML source
5.3.4. Style
The <head> element contains an embedded CSS stylesheet in a <style>
element. The styles in the stylesheet are to be set consistently
between documents by the RFC Editor, according to the best practices
of the day.
To ensure consistent formatting, individual style attributes are not
used in the main portion of the document source except in highly
exceptional circumstances; each use of such attributes will be
individually justified.
Different readers of a specification will desire different formatting
when reading the HTML versions of RFCs. To facilitate this, the
<head> element also includes a <link> to a stylesheet in the same
directory as the HTML file, named "rfc-local.css". Any formatting in
the linked stylesheet will override the formatting in the included
stylesheet.
<style>
body {}
...
</style>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="rfc-local.css">
5.4. Document Information
Information about the document as a whole. The <dl> element with
id="identifiers" is the first child element of the HTML <body>
element. The defined terms in the definition list are "Workgroup:",
"Series:", "Status:", "Published:", and "Authors:".
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<dl id="identifiers">
<dt>Workgroup:</dt>
<dd class="workgroup">rfc-interest</dd>
<dt>Series:</dt>
<dd class="series">Internet-Draft</dd>
<dt>Status:</dt>
<dd class="status">Informational</dd>
<dt>Published:</dt>
<dd><time datetime="2014-10-25"
class="published">2014-10-25</time></dd>
<dt>Authors:</dt>
<dd class="authors">
<div class="author">
<span class="initial">J.</span>
<span class="surname">Hildebrand</span>
(<span class="organization">Cisco Systems, Inc.</span>)</div>
<div class="author">
<span class="initial">H.</span>
<span class="surname">Flanagan</span>
(<span class="organization">RFC Editor</span>)</div>
</dd>
</dl>
5.5. Table of Contents
To be documented.
5.6. Index
To be documented.
5.7. Authors' Addresses
At the end of the document, author information will be included
inside an HTML <address> element.
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<address class="vcard">
<span class="n hidden">
<span class="family-name">Hildebrand</span>
<span class="given-name">Joe</span>
</span>
<span class="nickname hidden">hildjj</span>
<span class="fn">Joe Hildebrand</span>
<span class="org">Cisco Systems, Inc.</span>
<a class="email"
href="mailto:jhildebr@example.com">jhildebr@example.com</a>
<div class="adr">
<div class="street-address">1899 Wynkoop St, Suite 600</div>
<div>
<span class="locality">Denver</span>,
<span class="region">CO</span>
<span class="postal-code">80202<span>
</div>
<div class="country-name">US</div>
</div>
</address>
Figure 1: Sample author information
5.8. IDs
HTML elements that are generated from XML elements that include an
anchor attribute will use the value of the anchor attribute
(prepended by "#") as the id of the corresponding HTML element. If
there is no anchor attribute, the slugifiedName attribute of the
contained <name> element will be used. Otherwise, the partNumber
attribute will be used, where it exists.
Some HTML constructs (such as <section> (Section 6.46)) will use
multiple of these identifiers.
5.9. Pilcrows
Each paragraph, artwork, or sourcecode segment outside of a <figure>
or <table> element will be appended with a space and a "pilcrow"
(U+00B6: PILCROW SIGN), otherwise known as a "paragraph sign". For
the purposes of clarity, in this document pilcrows are rendered as
"¶".
The pilcrow will normally be invisible unless the element it is
attached to is moused over. The pilcrow will be surrounded by a link
that points to the element it is attached to.
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Pilcrows are never included inside a <table> or <figure> elements,
since the figure number or table number serve as adequate link
targets.
Elements that might otherwise contain a pilcrow do not get marked
with a pilcrow if they contain one or more child elements that are
marked with a pilcrow.
<blockquote id="p-1.2-1">
<p id="p-1.2-2">Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought
forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and
dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
<a href="#p-1.2-2" class="pilcrow">¶</a></p>
<!-- NO pilcrow here -->
</blockquote>
6. Elements
This section describes how each of the XML elements from
[I-D.hoffman-xml2rfc] is rendered to HTML.
6.1. <abstract>
The abstract is rendered similarly to a <section> (Section 6.46) with
anchor="abstract" and <name>Abstract</name>, but without a section
number.
<section id="abstract">
<h2><a href="#abstract" class="self-ref">Abstract</a></h2>
<p id="p-abstract-1">This document defines...
<a href="#p-abstract-1" class="pilcrow">¶</a>
</p>
</section>
6.2. <address>
To be documented.
6.3. <annotation>
To be documented.
6.4. <area>
Not currently rendered to HTML.
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6.5. <artwork>
Artwork can either consist of inline text or SVG. If the artwork is
not inside a <figure> element, a pilcrow (Section 5.9) is included.
Inside a <figure> element, the figure title serves the purpose of the
pilcrow.
6.5.1. Text Artwork
Text artwork is rendered inside an HTML <pre> element. Note that
CDATA blocks do not work consistently in HTML, so all <, >, and &
must be escaped as <, >, and &, respectively.
The <pre> element will have CSS classes of "artwork" and "art-"
prepended to the value of the <artwork>'s "type" attribute, if it
exists.
<pre class="artwork art-ascii-art" id="p-2-16">
______________
< hello, world >
--------------
\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||
<a href="#p-2-16" class="pilcrow">¶</a></pre>
</pre>
6.5.2. SVG Artwork
SVG artwork MUST be included inline. The SVG is wrapped in a <div>
element with CSS classes "artwork" and "art-svg".
<div class="artwork art-svg" id="p-2-17">
<svg width="100" height="100">
<circle
cx="50" cy="50" r="40"
stroke="green" stroke-width="4" fill="yellow" />
</svg>
<a href="#p-2-17" class="pilcrow">¶</a></pre>
</div>
6.6. <aside>
This element is rendered as an HTML <aside> element, with a pilcrow
(Section 5.9) added.
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<aside id="p-1.2-6">A little more than kin, and less than kind.
<a href="#p-1.2-6" class="pilcrow">¶</a>
</aside>
6.7. <author>
The <author> element from the <front> of the document is rendered
into the Section 5.4, the Section 5.3.3, and the Section 5.7. See
each of those sections for details.
6.8. <b>
This element is directly rendered as its HTML counterpart.
6.9. <back>
This element does not add any direct output to HTML.
6.10. <bcp14>
This element marks up words like MUST and SHOULD with an HTML <span>
element with the CSS class "bcp14".
You <span class="bcp14">MUST</span> be joking.
6.11. <blockquote>
This element renders as the similar HTML <blockquote> element. If
there is a "cite" attribute, it is copied to the HTML cite attribute.
If there is a "quoteFrom" attribute, it is placed inside a <cite>
element at the end of the quote, with an <a> element surrounding it
(if there is a "cite" attribute), linking to the "cite" URL.
If the blockquote does not contain another element that gets a
pilcrow (Section 5.9), a pilcrow is added.
<blockquote id="p-1.2-1"
cite="http://...">
<p id="p-1.2-2">Four score and seven years ago our fathers
brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived
in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men
are created equal.
<a href="#p-1.2-2" class="pilcrow">¶</a>
</p>
<cite>-- <a href="http://...">Abraham Lincoln</a></cite>
</blockquote>
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6.12. <boilerplate>
The IPR boilerplate for the document appears directly after the
Abstract. The childern of the input <boilerplate> element are
treated similarly to sections.
<section id="status-of-this-memo">
<h2 id="s-boilerplate-1">
<a href="#status-of-this-memo" class="self-ref">
Status of this Memo</a>
</h2>
<p id="p-boilerplate-1-1">This Internet-Draft is submitted in full
conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79.
<a href="#p-boilerplate-1-1" class="pilcrow">¶</a>
</p>
...
6.13. <city>
This element is rendered as a <span> element with CSS class
"locality".
<span class='locality'>Denver</span>
6.14. <code>
This element is rendered as a <span> element with CSS class "postal-
code".
<span class="postal-code">80202<span>
6.15. <country>
This element is rendered as a <div> element with CSS class "country-
name".
<div class="country-name">US</div>
6.16. <cref>
This element is rendered as a <span> element with CSS class "cref".
<span class="cref">This is a comment</div>
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6.17. <date>
This element is rendered as the HTML <time> element. If the "year",
"month", or "day" attribute is included on the XML element, an
appropriate "datetime" element will be generated in HTML.
If this date is a child of the <front> element, it gets the CSS class
"published".
<time datetime="2014-10" class="published">October 2014</time>
6.18. <dd>
This element is directly rendered as its HTML counterpart.
6.19. <displayreference>
To be documented, pending RFC editor guidance on desired semantics.
6.20. <dl>
This element is directly rendered as its HTML counterpart.
6.21. <dt>
This element is directly rendered as its HTML counterpart.
6.22. <em>
This element is directly rendered as its HTML counterpart.
6.23. <email>
This element is rendered as an HTML <a> element, with "href"
attribute set to the equivalent "mailto:" URI, and CSS class of
"email".
<a class="email"
href="mailto:jhildebr@example.com">jhildebr@example.com</a>
6.24. <eref>
This element is rendered as HTML <a> element, with the "href"
attribute set to the value of the "target" attribute, and the CSS
class of "eref"
<a href="https://..." class="eref">the text</a>
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6.25. <figure>
This element renders as the HTML <figure> element, containing the
artwork or sourcecode indicated and an HTML <figcaption> element.
The <figcaption> will contain an <a> element with CSS class "self-
ref" around the figure number. It will also contain another <a>
element with CSS class "self-ref" around the figure name, if a name
was given.
<figure id="f-1">
...
<figcaption>
<a href="#f-1" class="self-ref">Figure 1.</a>
<a href="#n-it-figures" class="self-ref">It figures</a>
</figcaption>
</figure>
6.26. <front>
This element does not add any direct output to HTML.
6.27. <i>
This element is directly rendered as its HTML counterpart.
6.28. <iref>
To be documented, once the <iref> element is better documented.
6.29. <keyword>
Each of these elements renders its text into the <meta> keywords in
the document's header, separated by commas.
<meta name="keywords" content="html,css,rfc">
6.30. <li>
This element is rendered as its HTML counterpart, however if there is
no contained element that had a pilcrow (Section 5.9) attached, a
pilcrow is added.
<li id="p-2-7">Item <a href="#p-2-7" class="pilcrow">¶</a></li>
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6.31. <link>
To be documented, pending RFC editor guidance on desired semantics.
6.32. <middle>
This element does not add any direct output to HTML.
6.33. <name>
This element is never rendered directly, but instead when considering
its parent element, such as <section> (Section 6.46).
6.34. <note>
This element is rendered similarly to a <section> (Section 6.46), but
without a section number, and with the CSS class of "note. If the
"removeInRFC" attribute is set to "yes", the generated div will also
include the CSS class "rfceditor-remove".
<section id="s-note-1" class="note rfceditor-remove">
<h2>
<a href="#n-editorial-note" class="self-ref">Editorial Note</a>
</h2>
<p id="p-note-1-1">
Discussion of this draft takes place...
<a href="#p-note-1-1" class="pilcrow">¶</a>
</p>
</section>
6.35. <ol>
This element is directly rendered as its HTML counterpart, with the
minor exception that if the spacing attribute has the value
"compact", a CSS class of "olcompact" will be added.
6.36. <organization>
This element is rendered as an HTML <span> tag with CSS class "org".
<span class="org">Cisco Systems, Inc.</span>
6.37. <phone>
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6.38. <postal>
This element renderes as an HTML <div> with CSS class "adr".
<div class="adr">...</div>
6.39. <postalLine>
This element renders as an HTML <div> with CSS class "street-
address".
<div class="street-address">1899 Wynkoop St, Suite 600</div>
6.40. <refcontent>
This element renders as an HTML <span> with CSS class "refcontent".
<span class="refcontent">Self-published pamphlet</span>
6.41. <reference>
This element will render as a <dt> <dd> pair, with the defined term
being the reference "anchor" attribute surrounded by square brackers,
and the definition including the correct set of bibliographic
information as specified by [RFC7322]. The <dt> element will have an
"id" attribute of the reference anchor.
<dl class="reference">
<dt id="RFC5646">[RFC5646]</dt>
<dd><span class="refauthor">Phillips, A.</span> ...</dd>
</dl>
6.42. <referencegroup>
To be documented, pending RFC editor guidance on desired semantics.
6.43. <references>
If there is at least one <references> element, a "References" section
is added to the document, continuing with the next major section
number after the last <section> (Section 6.46).
Each references element will be added to that "References" section as
if it were a section itself.
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<section id="n-references">
<h2 id="s-3">
<a href="#s-3" class="self-ref">3.</a>
<a href="#n-references" class="self-ref">References</a>
</h2>
<section id="n-informative-references">
<h3 id="s-3.1">
<a href="#s-3.1" class="self-ref">3.1.</a>
<a href="#n-informative-references" class="self-ref">
Informative References</a></h3>
<dl class="reference">...
</dl>
</section>
</section>
6.44. <region>
This element is rendered as a <span> element with CSS class "region".
<span class="region">CO<span>
6.45. <rfc>
Various attributes of this element are represented in the HTML
document.
6.46. <section>
This element is rendered as an HTML <section> element, containing an
appropriate level HTML heading element (<h2>-<h6>). That heading
element contains a <a> element around the sectionNumber, if
applicable (e.g. <abstract> does not get a section number). Another
<a> element is included with the section's name.
<section id="intro">
<h2 id="s-1">
<a href="#s-1" class="self-ref">1.</a>
<a href="#intro" class="self-ref">Introduction</a>
</h2>
<p id="p-1-1">Paragraph <a href="#p-1-1" class="pilcrow">¶</a>
</p>
</section>
6.47. <seriesInfo>
This element is rendered in an HTML <span> element with CSS name
"seriesInfo".
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<span class="seriesInfo">RFC 5646</span>
6.48. <sourcecode>
This element is rendered in an HTML <pre> with a CSS class of
"sourcecode". Note that CDATA blocks do not work consistently in
HTML, so all <, >, and & must be escaped as <, >, and &,
respectively. If the input XML has a "type" attribute, another CSS
class of "lang-" and the type is added.
If the sourcecode is not inside a <figure> element, a pilcrow
(Section 5.9) is included. Inside a <figure> element, the figure
title serves the purpose of the pilcrow.
<pre class="sourcecode lang-c">
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
printf("hello, world\n");
return 0;
}
</pre>
6.49. <street>
This element renders as an HTML <div> with CSS class "street-
address".
<div class="street-address">1899 Wynkoop St, Suite 600</div>
6.50. <strong>
This element is directly rendered as its HTML counterpart.
6.51. <sub>
This element is directly rendered as its HTML counterpart.
6.52. <sup>
This element is directly rendered as its HTML counterpart.
6.53. <t>
This element is rendered as an HTML <p> element. A pilcrow
(Section 5.9) is included.
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<p id="p-1-1">A paragraph.
<a href="#p-1-1" class="pilcrow">¶</a></p>
6.54. <table>
This element is directly rendered as its HTML counterpart.
6.55. <tbody>
This element is directly rendered as its HTML counterpart.
6.56. <td>
This element is directly rendered as its HTML counterpart.
6.57. <tfoot>
This element is directly rendered as its HTML counterpart.
6.58. <th>
This element is directly rendered as its HTML counterpart.
6.59. <thead>
This element is directly rendered as its HTML counterpart.
6.60. <title>
The title of the document appears in an <h1> element, and follows
directly after the Document Information. The <h1> element has an id
attribute with value "title". For example:
<h1 id="title">HyperText Markup Language Request For
Comments Format</h1>
6.61. <tr>
This element is directly rendered as its HTML counterpart.
6.62. <tt>
This element is directly rendered as its HTML counterpart.
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6.63. <ul>
This element is directly rendered as its HTML counterpart, with the
minor exception that if the spacing attribute has the value
"compact", a CSS class of "ulcompact" will be added.
6.64. <uri>
This element is rendered as an HTML <a> element, containing the URI
as botht the "href" attribute and the linked text.
6.65. <workgroup>
This element does not add any direct output to HTML.
6.66. <xref>
This element is rendered as an HTML <a> element containing an
appropriate local link as the "href" attribute.
7. IANA Considerations
This document contains no actions for IANA
8. Security Considerations
Since RFCs are sometimes exchanged outside the normal Web sandboxing
mechanism (e.g., rsync to a mirror) then loaded from a local file,
more care must be taken with the HTML than is ordinary on the web.
9. Acknowledgments
The authors gratefully acknowledge the contributions of: Patrick
Linskey, and the members of the RFC Format Design Team (Nevil
Brownlee, Ted Lemon, Paul Hoffman, Julian Reschke, Adam Roach, Alice
Russo, Robert Sparks, Dave Thaler).
10. References
10.1. Normative References
[RFC3629] Yergeau, F., "UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO
10646", STD 63, RFC 3629, November 2003.
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[W3C.PR-html5-20140916]
Berjon, R., Faulkner, S., Leithead, T., Navara, E.,
O'Connor, E., and S. Pfeiffer, "HTML5", World Wide
Web Consortium PR PR-html5-20140916, September 2014,
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/PR-html5-20140916>.
[W3C.REC-CSS2-20110607]
Bos, B., Celik, T., Hickson, I., and H. Lie, "Cascading
Style Sheets Level 2 Revision 1 (CSS 2.1) Specification",
World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation REC-
CSS2-20110607, June 2011,
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/REC-CSS2-20110607>.
[I-D.flanagan-rfc-framework]
Flanagan, H., "RFC Format Framework", draft-flanagan-rfc-
framework-01 (work in progress), September 2014.
10.2. Informative References
[RFC5646] Phillips, A. and M. Davis, "Tags for Identifying
Languages", BCP 47, RFC 5646, September 2009.
[RFC6949] Flanagan, H. and N. Brownlee, "RFC Series Format
Requirements and Future Development", RFC 6949, May 2013.
[RFC7322] Flanagan, H. and S. Ginoza, "RFC Style Guide", RFC 7322,
September 2014.
[I-D.hoffman-xml2rfc]
Hoffman, P., "The 'XML2RFC' version 3 Vocabulary", draft-
hoffman-xml2rfc-09 (work in progress), July 2014.
Authors' Addresses
Joe Hildebrand (editor)
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Email: jhildebr@cisco.com
Heather Flanagan (editor)
RFC Editor
Email: rse@rfc-editor.org
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