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January 5, 2005

BibTeX for RFCs

I'm writing something in LaTeX and decided that I didn't want to type in the BibTeX entries for all the RFCs I wanted to cite. The RFC Editor maintains an XML index of all the RFCs so it was a fairly short matter to write a script to convert that index to BibTeX format. If you're interested, you can find a copy here. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be an XML version of the Internet Drafts index and I haven't written a parser for the vaguely idiosyncratic format yet.

Posted by ekr at January 5, 2005 4:43 PM | Filed under:

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Am I misunderstanding what you're asking for, or have you just not found this yet?

Posted by: Adam Roach at January 5, 2005 6:49 PM

I created an I-D index in XML just the other day. The format is still completely up in the air, right now it's not actually designed; just a raw database dump that happens to be shaped like XML...

Posted by: Bill Fenner at January 5, 2005 10:29 PM