Network Working Group J. Hildebrand, Ed. Internet-Draft Cisco Systems, Inc. Intended status: Informational P. Hoffman Expires: February 25, 2016 ICANN August 24, 2015 HyperText Markup Language Request For Comments Format draft-hildebrand-html-rfc-10 Abstract In order to meet the evolving needs of the Internet community, the format for RFCs is changing from a plain-text, ASCII-only format to a canonical XML format that will in turn be rendered into several publication formats. This document defines the HTML format that will be rendered for an RFC or Internet-Draft. 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 February 25, 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 (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 Hildebrand & Hoffman Expires February 25, 2016 [Page 1] Internet-Draft HTML RFC August 2015 the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2. Requirements for the HTML Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.1. Requirements for Accessibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3. HTML Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4. HTML Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 5. Common Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 5.1. IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 5.2. Pilcrows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 5.3. ASCII Equivalents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 5.4. Syntactic Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 6. Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 6.1. DOCTYPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 6.2. Root Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 6.3. Head Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 6.3.1. Charset Declaration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 6.3.2. Document Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 6.3.3. Document metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 6.3.4. Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 6.3.5. Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 6.4. Document Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 6.5. Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 7. Main Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 8. Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 8.1. Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 8.1.1. Index Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 8.1.2. Index Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 8.1.3. Index Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 8.1.4. Index Sub-items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 8.2. Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 8.3. Document Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 8.4. XML Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 9. Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 9.1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 9.2.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 9.3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 9.4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 9.5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 9.5.1. Text Artwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 9.5.2. SVG Artwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 9.5.3. Other Artwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 9.6.