Network Working Group P. Hoffman Internet-Draft ICANN Obsoletes: 2629 (if approved) August 31, 2015 Intended status: Informational Expires: March 3, 2016 The 'XML2RFC' version 3 Vocabulary draft-hoffman-xml2rfc-22 Abstract This document defines the "XML2RFC" version 3 vocabulary; an XML- based language used for writing RFCs and Internet-Drafts. It is heavily derived from the version 2 vocabulary that is also under discussion. This document obsoletes the v2 grammar described in RFC 2629 and its expected followup, draft-iab-xml2rfc. Editorial Note (To be removed by RFC Editor) Discussion of this draft takes place on the rfc-interest mailing list (rfc-interest@rfc-editor.org), which has its home page at . Status of This Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet- Drafts is at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." This Internet-Draft will expire on March 3, 2016. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2015 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents Hoffman Expires March 3, 2016 [Page 1] Internet-Draft The 'XML2RFC' version 3 Vocabulary August 2015 (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.1. Design Criteria for the Changes in v3 . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.2. Differences from v2 to v3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.2.1. New Elements in v3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.2.2. New Attributes for Existing Elements . . . . . . . . 7 1.2.3. Elements and Attributes Deprecated from v2 . . . . . 8 1.2.4. Additional Changes from v2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.3. Syntax Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2. Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.2.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2.6.