# -*- mode: conf-mode; tab-width: 4 -*-
# This is a YAML document which provides element and attribute descriptions
# for the xml2rfc schema.  It is read when the --doc switch of xml2rfc is
# given, and used together with the Jinja2 template 'doc.xml' to build
# documentation for xml2rfc.
#
# The keys use a limited CSS selector formalism in order to specify which
# element, element attribute, or element attribute value the entries refer
# to.  For each key, one or more text items can be given.  These will be
# used in the Jinja2 template as XML fragment.  Each will be wrapped in a
# text <t> or list (<ol> or <dl>) tag, depending on type, unless it already
# starts with an XML tag.
#
# To make typing easier, literal '<', '>', '&' characters can be escaped with
# a backward slash.  For instance, '&lt;foo&gt;' can also be written \<foo\>.
#
# There are some additional comments about fine points of the format inline.


# --- Elements and attributes ----------------------------------------------


abstract:

    - Contains the Abstract of the document.  See <xref target="RFC7322"/> for
      more information on restrictions for the Abstract.

address:

    -  Provides address information for the author.

annotation:

    -  Provides additional prose augmenting a bibliographic reference.  This
       text is intended to be shown after the rest of the generated
       reference text.

area:

    -  Provides information about the IETF area to which this document
       relates (currently not used when generating documents).

    -  The value ought to be either the full name or the abbreviation of one
       of the IETF areas as listed on <eref target="http://www.ietf.org/iesg/area.html"/>.
       A list of full names and abbreviations will be kept by the RFC Series
       Editor.

artset:

    - This element allows for the support of multiple artwork formats,
      in order to provide suitable artwork for different output formats.

    - When multiple \<artwork\> instances are provided within one \<artset\>
      element, the renderer will try to pick the \<artwork\> instance which is
      most appropriate for its current output format from the given
      alternatives.

    - If more than one \<artwork\> element with the same "type" is found
      within an \<artset\> element, the renderer could select the first one, or
      possibly choose between the alternative instances based on the output
      format and some quality of the alternatives that make one more suitable
      than the others for that particular format, such as size, aspect ratio,
      etc.

artwork:

      # This text fragment is quoted, as the yaml parser would otherwise do
      # special handling for the backslash at the start of the second line:
    -  'This element allows the inclusion of "artwork" in the document.
       \<artwork\> provides full control of horizontal whitespace and line
       breaks; thus, it is used for a variety of things, such as diagrams
       ("line art") and protocol unit diagrams.  Tab characters (U+0009)
       inside of this element are prohibited.'

    -  Alternatively, the "src" attribute allows referencing an external
       graphics file, such as a vector drawing in SVG or a bitmap graphic
       file, using a URI.  In this case, the textual content acts as a
       fallback for output representations that do not support graphics;
       thus, it ought to contain either (1) a "line art" variant of the
       graphics or (2) prose that describes the included image in sufficient
       detail.

    -  In order to include alternative artwork expressions for different
       output formats, you should provide multiple \<artwork\> elements
       enclosed within an \<artset\>.  The text renderer will prefer
       instances with type="ascii-art", while the HTML and PDF renderers
       will prefer instances with type="svg".

    - In the v1 and v2 iterations of the schema, the \<artwork\> element was
      also used for source code and formal languages; in v3, this is now done
      with \<sourcecode\>.

      # This text fragment is quoted because it ends with a colon, and would
      # otherwise be taken as a dictionary key by the yaml parser
    -  "There are at least five ways to include SVG in artwork in Internet-
       Drafts:"

    -
       # This will be rendered as a list using <ul>
       -  '<t>Inline, by including all of the SVG in the content of the element,
          such as:</t>
          <sourcecode>\<artwork type="svg"\>\<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/
          svg..."\></sourcecode>'

       -  '<t>Inline, but using XInclude (see Appendix B.1), such as:
          </t>
          <sourcecode>\<artwork type="svg"\>\<xi:include href=...\></sourcecode>'

       -  |
          <t>
            As a data: URI, such as:
          </t>
          <sourcecode>
          \<artwork type="svg" 
          src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww..."\>
          </sourcecode>

       -  '<t>As a URI to an external entity, such as:</t>
          <sourcecode>\<artwork type="svg" src="http://www.example.com/..."\>
          </sourcecode>'

       -  '<t>As a local file, such as:</t>
          <sourcecode>\<artwork type="svg" src="diagram12.svg"\></sourcecode>'

    -  The use of SVG in Internet-Drafts and RFCs is covered in much more
       detail in <xref target="RFC7996"/>.

    -  'The above methods for inclusion of SVG art can also be used for
       including text artwork, but using a data: URI is probably confusing
       for text artwork.'

    -  Formatters that do pagination should attempt to keep artwork on a
       single page.  This is to prevent artwork that is split across pages
       from looking like two separate pieces of artwork.

    -  See Section 5 for a description of how to deal with issues of using
       "\&" and "\<" characters in artwork.


artwork[align]:

    -  Controls whether the artwork appears left justified,
       centered, or right justified.

artwork[alt]:

    -  Alternative text description of the artwork (which is more than just
       a summary or caption).  When the art comes from the "src" attribute
       and the format of that artwork supports alternate text, the
       alternative text comes from the text of the artwork itself, not from
       this attribute.  The contents of this attribute are important to
       readers who are visually impaired, as well as those reading on
       devices that cannot show the artwork well, or at all.

artwork[name]:

    -  A filename suitable for the contents (such as for extraction to a
       local file).  This attribute can be helpful for other kinds of tools
       (such as automated syntax checkers, which work by extracting the
       artwork).  Note that the "name" attribute does not need to be unique
       for \<artwork\> elements in a document.  If multiple \<artwork\> elements
       have the same "name" attribute, a processing tool might assume that
       the elements are all fragments of a single file, and the tool can
       collect those fragments for later processing.  

artwork[src]:

    -  'The URI reference of a graphics file <xref target="RFC3986"/>, or the name of a file
       on the local disk.  This can be a "data" URI <xref target="RFC2397"/> that contains
       the contents of the graphics file.  Note that the inclusion of art
       with the "src" attribute depends on the capabilities of the
       processing tool reading the XML document.  Tools need to be able to
       handle the file: URI, and they should be able to handle http: and
       https: URIs as well.  The prep tool will be able to handle reading
       the "src" attribute.'

    -  If no URI scheme is given in the attribute, the attribute is
       considered to be a local filename relative to the current directory.
       Processing tools must be careful to not accept dangerous values for
       the filename, particularly those that contain absolute references
       outside the current directory.  Document creators should think hard
       before using relative URIs due to possible later problems if files
       move around on the disk.  Also, documents should most likely use
       explicit URI schemes wherever possible.

    -  In some cases, the prep tool may remove the "src" attribute after
       processing its value.  See <xref target="RFC7998"/> for a description of this.

artwork[type]:

    -  Specifies the format of the artwork.  The value of this attribute is
       free text with certain values designated as preferred.

    -  'The preferred values for \<artwork\> types are:' 

    -
       -  ascii-art

       -  binary-art

       -  svg

    -  Values that don't describe the format, such as "call-flow" or
       "hex-dump" were mentioned in <xref target="RFC7991"/>, but are not
       supported here; they are instead candidates for use with another
       future attribute to describe the artwork content.

    -  The RFC Series Editor will maintain a complete list of the preferred
       values on the RFC Editor web site, and that list is expected to be
       updated over time.  Thus, a consumer of v3 XML should not cause a
       failure when it encounters an unexpected type or no type is
       specified.  The table will also indicate which type of art can appear
       in plain-text output (for example, type="svg" cannot).

aside:

    -  This element is a container for content that is semantically less
       important or tangential to the content that surrounds it.

author:

    -  Provides information about a document's author.  This is used both
       for the document itself (at the beginning of the document) and for
       referenced documents.

    -  The \<author\> elements contained within the document's \<front\> element
       are used to fill the boilerplate and also to generate the "Author's
       Address" section (see <xref target="RFC7322"/>).

    -  'Note that an "author" can also be just an organization (by not
       specifying any of the "name" attributes, but adding the
       \<organization\> child element).'

    -  Furthermore, the "role" attribute can be used to mark an author as
       "editor".  This is reflected both on the front page and in the
       "Author's Address" section, as well as in bibliographic references.
       Note that this specification does not define a precise meaning for
       the term "editor".

author[asciiFullname]:

    -  The Latin script equivalent of the author's full name.

author[asciiInitials]:

    -  The Latin script equivalent of the author's initials, to be used in
       conjunction with the separately specified asciiSurname.

author[asciiSurname]:

    -  The Latin script equivalent of the author's surname, to be used in
       conjunction with the separately specified asciiInitials.

author[fullname]:

    -  The full name (used in the automatically generated "Author's Address"
       section).  Although this attribute is optional, if one or more of the
       "asciiFullname", "asciiInitials", or "asciiSurname" attributes does
       not have values, the "fullname" attribute is required.

author[initials]:

    -  An abbreviated variant of the given name(s), to be used in
       conjunction with the separately specified surname.  It usually
       appears on the front page, in footers, and in references.

    -  Some processors will post-process the value -- for instance, when it
       only contains a single letter (in which case they might add a
       trailing dot).  Relying on this kind of post-processing can lead to
       results varying across formatters and thus ought to be avoided.

author[role]:

    -  Specifies the role the author had in creating the document.

author[surname]:

    -  The author's surname, to be used in conjunction with the separately
       specified initials.  It usually appears on the front page, in
       footers, and in references.

back:

    -  'Contains the "back" part of the document: the references and
       appendices.  In \<back\>, \<section\> elements indicate appendices.'

bcp14:

    -  Marks text that are phrases defined in <xref target="BCP14"/> such as "MUST",
       "SHOULD NOT", and so on.  When shown in some of the output
       representations, the text in this element might be highlighted.  The
       use of this element is optional.

    -  This element is only to be used around the actual phrase from BCP 14,
       not the full definition of a requirement.  For example, it is correct
       to say "The packet \<bcp14\>MUST\</bcp14\> be dropped.", but it is not
       correct to say "\<bcp14\>The packet MUST be dropped.\</bcp14\>".

blockquote:

    -  Specifies that a block of text is a quotation.

blockquote[cite]:

    -  The source of the citation.  This must be a URI.  If the "quotedFrom"
       attribute is given, this URI will be used by processing tools as the
       link for the text of that attribute.

blockquote[quotedFrom]:

    -  Name of person or document the text in this element is quoted from.
       A formatter should render this as visible text at the end of the
       quotation.

boilerplate:

    -  Holds the boilerplate text for the document.  This element is filled
       in by the prep tool.

    -  This element contains \<section\> elements.  Every \<section\> element in
       this element must have the "numbered" attribute set to "false".

br:

    - Inserts a forced break.  Use sparingly.  In most situations, it's better
      to insert U+200B, ZERO WIDTH SPACE, in order to encourage line breaking
      at a point where it would otherwise not occur.

city:

    -  Gives the city name in a postal address.

cityarea:

    -  Where postal addresses use city subdivisions, these are mapped to
       the \<cityarea\> element.  Korean addresses would use this for
       a city district, for instance.  Countries known to use this
       element are Ascension Island, China, Iran, South Korea, and Thailand.


code:

    -  Gives the postal region code.

contact:

    -  "Provides information about contributors.  This element can be used
       inline within a \<t\>, and will be rendered with name only, similarly
       to how \<author\> is rendered in a \<reference\>, or it can be used
       as a direct child of \<section\>, where it will be rendered the same
       way as an author address block within the \"Authors' Addresses\"
       section."

    -  'Note that a "contact" can also be just an organization (by not
       specifying any of the "name" attributes, but adding the
       \<organization\> child element).'

contact[asciiFullname]:

    -  The Latin script equivalent of the contact's full name.

contact[asciiInitials]:

    -  The Latin script equivalent of the contact's initials, to be used in
       conjunction with the separately specified asciiSurname.

contact[asciiSurname]:

    -  The Latin script equivalent of the contact's surname, to be used in
       conjunction with the separately specified asciiInitials.

contact[fullname]:

    - The full name.  Although this attribute is optional, if one or more of
      the "asciiFullname", "asciiInitials", or "asciiSurname" attributes does
      not have values, the "fullname" attribute is required.

contact[initials]:

    -  An abbreviated variant of the given name(s), to be used in
       conjunction with the separately specified surname.

contact[surname]:

    -  The contact's surname, to be used in conjunction with the separately
       specified initials.

country:

    -  Specifies the country name in a postal address.  All common
       and official country names should be recognized; in addition two-
       and three-letter country codes according to ISO 3166 are recognized.

    -  'xml2rfc
       has a help option which will list all names and country codes
       it recognizes as valid country names: <tt>xml2rfc --country-help</tt> .'

cref:

    -  Represents a comment.

    -  Comments can be used in a document while it is work in progress.
       They might appear either inline and visually highlighted, at the end
       of the document, or not at all, depending on the formatting tool.

cref[display]:

    -  Suggests whether or not the comment should be displayed by formatting
       tools.  This might be set to "false" if you want to keep a comment in
       a document after the contents of the comment have already been dealt
       with.

cref[source]:

    -  Holds the "source" of a comment, such as the name or the initials of
       the person who made the comment.

date:

    -  'Provides information about the publication date.  This element is
       used for two cases: the boilerplate of the document being produced,
       and inside bibliographic references that use the \<front\> element.'

    -
       Boilerplate for Internet-Drafts and RFCs::

       -  This element defines the date of publication for the current
          document (Internet-Draft or RFC).  When producing Internet-Drafts,
          the prep tool uses this date to compute the expiration date (see
          <xref target="IDGUIDE"/>).  When one or more of "year", "month", or
          "day" are left out, the prep tool will attempt to use the current
          system date if the attributes that are present are consistent with
          that date.

       -  In dates in \<rfc\> elements, the month must be a number or a month
          in English.  The prep tool will silently change text month names
          to numbers.  Similarly, the year must be a four-digit number.

       -  When the prep tool is used to create Internet-Drafts, it will warn
          if the draft has a \<date\> element in the boilerplate for itself
          that is more than 3 days away from today.  To avoid this problem,
          authors might simply not include a \<date\> element in the
          boilerplate.

       Bibliographic references::

       -  (New) In order to be able to specify fuzzy dates, such as "2002-2003",
          "Second quarter 2010", etc., the date element is now permitted to
          have text content in addition to the "year", "month", and "day"
          attributes.  If there is only text content, it will be rendered
          as is.  If there is both text content and date components, both
          will be rendered, with the expanded date components in parentheses.

date[day]:

    -  The day of publication.

date[month]:

    -  The month of publication.

date[year]:

    -  The year of publication.

dd:

    -  The definition part of an entry in a definition list.

displayreference:

    -  'This element gives a mapping between the anchor of a reference and a
       name that will be displayed instead.  This allows authors to display
       more mnemonic anchor names for automatically included references.
       The mapping in this element only applies to \<xref\> elements whose
       format is "default".  For example, if the reference uses the anchor
       "RFC6949", the following would cause that anchor in the body of
       displayed documents to be "RFC-dev":'

    -  <sourcecode>\<displayreference target="RFC6949" to="RFC-dev"/\></sourcecode>

    -  If a reference section is sorted, this element changes the sort
       order.

displayreference[target]:

    -  'This attribute must be the name of an anchor in a \<reference\> or
       \<referencegroup\> element.'

displayreference[to]:

    -  'This attribute is a name that will be displayed as the anchor instead
       of the anchor that is given in the \<reference\> element.  The string
       given must start with one of the following characters: 0-9, a-z, or
       A-Z.  The other characters in the string must be 0-9, a-z, A-Z, "-",
       ".", or "_".'

dl:

    -  'A definition list.  Each entry has a pair of elements: a term (\<dt\>)
       and a definition (\<dd\>).  (This is slightly different and simpler
       than the model used in HTML, which allows for multiple terms for a
       single definition.)'

dl[indent]:

    - Indicates the indentation to be used for the rendering of the second and
      following lines of the item (the first line starts with the term, and is
      not indented).  The indentation amount is interpreted as characters when
      rendering plain-text documents, and en-space units when rendering in
      formats that have richer typographic support such as HTML or PDF.  One
      en-space is assumed to be the length of 0.5 em-space in CSS units.

dl[newline]:

    -  The "newline" attribute defines whether or not the term appears on
       the same line as the definition.  newline="false" indicates that the
       term is to the left of the definition, while newline="true"
       indicates that the term will be on a separate line.

dl[spacing]:

    -  Defines whether or not there is a blank line between entries.
       spacing="normal" indicates a single blank line, while
       spacing="compact" indicates no blank line between entries.

dt:

    - The term being defined in a definition list.

em:

    - Indicates text that is semantically emphasized.  In HTML and PDF rendering, text
      enclosed within this element will be displayed as italic after processing;
      in text rendering it will be preceded and followed by an underline character.
      This element can be combined with other character formatting elements, and
      the formatting will be additive.

email:

    -  Provides an email address.

    -  The value is expected to be the addr-spec defined in Section 2 of
       <xref target="RFC6068"/>.

    - (New) In <xref target="RFC7991"/>, only zero or one instance of this
      element was permitted in an address.  In the current schema, now multiple
      email addresses are permitted.

email[ascii]:

    -  The ASCII equivalent of the author's email address.  This is only
       used if the email address has any internationalized components.

eref:

    -  Represents an "external" link (as specified in the "target"
       attribute).  This is useful for embedding URIs in the body of a
       document.

    - If the \<eref\> element has non-empty text content, the content is used
      as the displayed text that is linked.  Otherwise, the value of the
      "target" attribute is used as the displayed text.  


eref[brackets]:

    - Determines the type of brackets that an eref will be rendered with.
      "angle" will render with angle brackets, and "none" will render with
      no brackets in HTML and PDF, and with parentheses by the text renderer.

eref[target]:

    - URI of the link target <xref target="RFC3986"/>.  This must begin with a
      scheme name (such as "https://") and thus not be relative to the URL of
      the current document.

extaddr:

    - Extra address information.  This element can be used for address parts
      more specific than a street, for instance apartment numbers, suite numbers,
      building parts, etc.

figure:

    -  Contains a figure with a caption with the figure number.  If the
       element contains a \<name\> element, the caption will also show that
       name.

front:

    -  'Represents the "front matter" metadata (such as author information),
       the Abstract, and additional notes.'

    -  'A \<front\> element may have more than one \<seriesInfo\> element.
       Each should contain a "name" attribute with the series name and a
       "value" attribute with the series number; other uses of 
       \<front\>\<seriesInfo\> described in <xref target="RFC7991"/> are
       deprecated.'

iref:

    -  Provides terms for the document's index.

    -  Index entries can be either regular entries (when just the "item"
       attribute is given) or nested entries (by specifying "subitem" as
       well), grouped under a regular entry.

    -  Index entries generally refer to the exact place where the \<iref\>
       element occurred.  An exception is the occurrence as a child element
       of \<section\>, in which case the whole section is considered to be
       relevant for that index entry.  In some formats, index entries of
       this type might be displayed as ranges.

    -  When the prep tool is creating index content, it collects the items
       in a case-sensitive fashion for both the item and subitem level.

iref[item]:

    -  The item to include.

iref[primary]:

    -  Setting this to "true" declares the occurrence as "primary", which
       might cause it to be highlighted in the index.  There is no
       restriction on the number of occurrences that can be "primary".

iref[subitem]:

    -  The subitem to include.

keyword:

    -  Specifies a keyword applicable to the document.

    -  Note that each element should only contain a single keyword; for
       multiple keywords, the element can simply be repeated.

    -  Keywords are used both in the RFC Index and in the metadata of
       generated document representations.  They are not reflected in
       the HTML, PDF, or text rendering of the document.

li:

    -  A list element, used in \<ol\> and \<ul\>.

link:

    -  A link to an external document that is related to the RFC.

    -  'The following are the supported types of external documents that can
       be pointed to in a \<link\> element:'

    -
       -  The current International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) for the
          RFC Series.  The value for the "rel" attribute is "item".  The
          link should use the form "urn:issn:".

       -  The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for this document.  The value
          for the "rel" attribute is "describedBy".  The link should use the
          form specified in <xref target="RFC7669"/>; this is expected to change in the
          future.

       -  The Internet-Draft that was submitted to the RFC Editor to become
          the published RFC.  The value for the "rel" attribute is
          "prev".  (RFC7998 specified "convertedFrom", but that value
          is not one of the recognised values for the @rel attribute of
          \<link\> elements in HTML.  The "prev" value has the desired semantics.)
          The link should be to an IETF-controlled web
          site that retains copies of Internet-Drafts.

       -  A representation of the document offered by the document author.
          The value for the "rel" attribute is "alternate".  The link can be
          to a personally run web site.

    -  'In RFC production mode, the prep tool needs to check the values for
       \<link\> before an RFC is published.  In draft production mode, the
       prep tool might remove some \<link\> elements during the draft
       submission process.'

link[href]:

    -  The URI of the external document.

link[rel]:

    -  The relationship of the external document to this one.  The
       relationships are taken from the "Link Relations" registry maintained
       by IANA <xref target="LINKRELATIONS"/>.

middle:

    -  Represents the main content of the document.

name:

    - The name of the containing (parent) element, for instance the section
      name.  This name can include inline markup (for example, including
      references or making some characters use a fixed-width font).

note:

    -  Creates an unnumbered, titled block of text that appears after the
       Abstract.

    -  It is usually used for additional information to reviewers (Working
       Group information, mailing list, ...) or for additional publication
       information such as "IESG Notes".

note[removeInRFC]:

    -  If set to "true", this note is marked in the prep tool with text
       indicating that it should be removed before the document is published
       as an RFC.  That text will be "This note is to be removed before
       publishing as an RFC."

ol:

    - An ordered list.  The labels on the items will be either a number or
      a letter, depending on the value of the style attribute.

ol[group]:

    -  When the prep tool sees an \<ol\> element with a "group" attribute that
       has already been seen, it continues the numbering of the list from
       where the previous list with the same group name left off.  If
       an \<ol\> element has both a "group" attribute and a "start" attribute,
       the group's numbering is reset to the given start value.

ol[spacing]:

    -  Defines whether or not there is a blank line between entries.
       spacing="normal" indicates a single blank line, while
       spacing="compact" indicates no blank line between entries.

ol[start]:

    -  The ordinal value at which to start the list.  This defaults to "1"
       and must be an integer of value 0 or greater.

ol[type]:

    -  'The type of the labels on list items.  If the length of the type
       value is 1, the meaning is the same as it is for HTML:'

    - a: Lowercase letters (a, b, c, ...)

    - A: Uppercase letters (A, B, C, ...)

    - 1: Decimal numbers (1, 2, 3, ...)

    - i: Lowercase Roman numerals (i, ii, iii, ...)

    - I: Uppercase Roman numerals (I, II, III, ...)

    -  For types "a" and "A", after the 26th entry, the numbering starts at
       "aa"/"AA", then "ab"/"AB", and so on.

    -  If the length of the type value is greater than 1, the value must
       contain a percent-encoded indicator and other text.  The value is a
       free-form text that allows counter values to be inserted using a
       "percent-letter" format.  For instance, "[REQ%d]" generates labels of
       the form "[REQ1]", where "%d" inserts the item number as a decimal
       number.

    -  'The following formats are supported:' 

    - '%c': Lowercase letters (a, b, c, ...)

    - '%C': Uppercase letters (A, B, C, ...)

    - '%d': Decimal numbers (1, 2, 3, ...)

    - '%i': Lowercase Roman numerals (i, ii, iii, ...)

    - '%I': Uppercase Roman numerals (I, II, III, ...)

    - '%p': The list counter of a list item in a parent list (see more
            below)

    - '%%': Represents a percent sign

    -  Other formats are reserved for future use.  Only one percent encoding
       other than "%%" and "%p" is allowed in a type string.

    -  It is an error for the type string to be empty.  For bulleted lists,
       use the \<ul\> element.  For lists that have neither bullets nor
       numbers, use the \<ul\> element with the 'empty="true"' attribute.

    - "'%p' may be used in nested ordered lists, where it represents the item
      number of the parent list item.  This lets you say for instance:"

    - |
      <sourcecode>
      \<ol\>
        \<li\>List item one\</li\>
        \<li\>
          \<t\>Nested list:\</t\>
          \<ol type='%p%d'\>
            \<li\>Sublist item 2.1\</li\>
            \<li\>Sublist item 2.2\</li\>
          \</ol\>
        \</li\>
      \</ol\>
      </sourcecode>
      <t>which is rendered as:</t>
      <ol>
        <li>List item one</li>
        <li>
          <t>Nested list</t>
          <ol type='%p%d'>
            <li>Sublist item 2.1</li>
            <li>Sublist item 2.2</li>
          </ol>
        </li>
      </ol>

    - Without the '%p' format specifier, you would have to explicitly
      insert the counter number of the parent item, which could easily
      result in mismatched numbering if parent list items were inserted
      or removed during document editing.

ol[indent]:

    - The indentation of the list elements relative to the start of the list
      item number.  With <tt>indent='adaptive'</tt>, the width of the
      widest list item number will determine the indentation.  With a numeric
      value, that value will be used to determine the amount of indentation.
      The indentation amount is interpreted as characters
      when rendering plain-text documents, and en-space units when rendering in
      formats that have richer typographic support such as HTML or PDF.  One
      en-space is assumed to be the length of 0.5 em-space in CSS units.  Only
      non-negative integer amounts of indentation are supported.

organization:

    -  Specifies the affiliation <xref target="RFC7322"/> of an author.

    -  This information appears both in the "Author's Address" section and
       on the front page (see <xref target="RFC7322"/> for more information).  If the value
       is long, an abbreviated variant can be specified in the "abbrev"
       attribute.

organization[abbrev]:

    -  Abbreviated variant of the organization name.

organization[asciiAbbrev]:

    -  The ASCII equivalent of the abbreviated variant of the organization's name.

organization[showOnFrontPage]:

    -  Turns off listing of organization with author name on the first document page.

phone:

    - Represents a phone number.

    - The value is expected to be the scheme-specific part of a "tel" URI
      (and so does not include the prefix "tel:"), using the
      "global-number-digits" syntax.  See Section 3 of <xref target="RFC3966"/> for
      details.

pobox:

    - Represents a post office box number.

postal:

    -  'Contains optional child elements providing postal information.  These
       elements will be displayed in an order that is specific to
       formatters.  A postal address can contain only a set of \<street\>,
       \<city\>, \<region\>, \<code\>, and \<country\> elements, or only an ordered
       set of \<postalLine\> elements, but not both.'

postalLine:

    -  'Represents one line of a postal address.  When more than one
       \<postalLine\> is given, the prep tool emits them in the order given.'

refcontent:

    -  Text that should appear between the title and the date of a
       reference.  The purpose of this element is to obviate the need for
       abuse of \<seriesInfo\> in order to add such text.

    -  'For example:' 

    -  '\<reference anchor="April1"\>
         \<front\>
           \<title\>On Being A Fool\</title\>
           \<author initials="K." surname="Phunny" fullname="Knot Phunny"/\>
           \<date year="2000" month="April"/\>
         \</front\>
         \<refcontent\>Self-published pamphlet\</refcontent\>
       \</reference\>'

    -  'would render as:' 

    -  '   [April1]     Phunny, K., "On Being A Fool", Self-published
                       pamphlet, April 2000.'

reference:

    -  Represents a bibliographic reference.

reference[anchor]:

    -  Document-wide unique identifier for this \<reference\>.  Usually, this
       will be used both to "label" the reference in the "References"
       section and as an identifier in links to this reference entry; but
       see \<<xref target="element-displayreference">displayreference</xref>\>
       for how to change this.

reference[quote-title]:

    -  Specifies whether or not the title in the reference should be quoted.
       This can be used to prevent quoting, such as on errata.

reference[target]:

    -  Holds the URI for the reference.

referencegroup:

    -  Represents a list of bibliographic references that will be
       represented as a single reference.  This is most often used to
       reference STDs and BCPs, where a single reference (such as "BCP 9")
       may encompass more than one RFC.

referencegroup[anchor]:

    - Document-wide unique identifier for this \<referencegroup\>.  Usually,
      this will be used both to "label" the reference group in the "References"
      section and as an identifier in links to this reference entry; but
      see \<<xref target="element-displayreference">displayreference</xref>\> for
      how to change this.

referencegroup[target]:

    - (New) Holds an URI for the reference group, analogous to the "target" attribute
      of \<reference\>.  Useful for a STD which consists of multiple RFCs with
      their own URLs, but also has its own unique URL.

references:

    -  Contains a set of bibliographic references.

    -  In the early days of the RFC Series, there was only one "References"
       section per RFC.  This convention was later changed to group
       references into two sets, "Normative" and "Informative", as described
       in <xref target="RFC7322"/>.  This vocabulary supports the split with the \<name\>
       child element.  In general, the title should be either "Normative
       References" or "Informative References".

    -  "The recommended way to include references to RFCs and Internet-Drafts is to
       use the standard XML XInclude mechanism.  Here is an example:"

    - |
      <sourcecode><![CDATA[
      <references>
      <name>Normative References</name>
      <!--RTP-->
      <xi:include href=
      "https://bib.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.3550.xml"/>
      <!--SIP-->
      <xi:include href=
      "https://bib.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.3261.xml"/>
      </references>
      ]]></sourcecode>

references[anchor]:

    -  An optional user-supplied identifier for this set of references.

region:

    -  Provides the region name in a postal address.

relref:

    - Deprecated.  Use \<xref\> with "section".

rfc:

    -  This is the root element of the xml2rfc vocabulary.

rfc[category]:

    - Document category

    - For RFCs, the "category" attribute (Section 2.33.1) determines the
      "maturity level" (see Section 4 of <xref target="RFC2026"/>).  The allowed values
      are "std" for "Standards Track", "bcp" for "BCP", "info" for
      "Informational", "exp" for "Experimental", and "historic" for
      "Historic".

    - For Internet-Drafts, the "category" attribute is not needed; when
      supplied, it will appear as "Intended Status".  Supplying this information
      can be useful to reviewers.

rfc[consensus]:

    -  Affects the generated boilerplate.  Note that the values of "no" and
       "yes" are deprecated and are replaced by "false" and
       "true".

    -  See <xref target="RFC7841"/> for more information.

rfc[docName]:

    - Indicates the draft name (including revision number) for a draft, or
      the draft from which an RFC derived, for an RFC.  Used to insert the
      \<link rel="prev" href="..."\> element that points to the precursor
      of the RFC, in accordance with the intentions of 
      <xref target="RFC7998" section="5.6.3"/>.

rfc[indexInclude]:

    -  Specifies whether or not a formatter is requested to include an index
       in generated files.  If the source file has no \<iref\> elements, an
       index is never generated.  This option is useful for generating
       documents where the source document has \<iref\> elements but the
       author no longer wants an index.

rfc[ipr]:

    -  Represents the Intellectual Property status of the document.

    -  "If the attribute is set to the empty string: \<tt\>ipr=''\</tt\>,
       it is assumed that this is not a regular IETF/IRTF/IAB/ISE document, and
       the document header content is reduced.  This is considered
       a feature by a few other standards organisations that have
       used xml2rfc to format their standards documents."

rfc[iprExtract]:

    -  Identifies a single section within the document for which extraction
       "as is" is explicitly allowed (only relevant for historic values of
       the "ipr).

rfc[number]:

    -  Used to determine whether to produce an RFC or an Internet-Draft.

rfc[obsoletes]:

    -  A comma-separated list of RFC numbers or Internet-Draft names.

    -  The prep tool will parse the attribute value so that incorrect
       references can be detected.

rfc[prepTime]:

    -  The date that the XML was processed by a prep tool.  This is included
       in the XML file just before it is saved to disk.  The value is
       formatted using the "date-time" format defined in Section 5.6 of
       <xref target="RFC3339"/>.  The "time-offset" should be "Z".

rfc[seriesNo]:

    -  Deprecated; instead, use the "value" in \<seriesInfo\>.

rfc[sortRefs]:

    -  Specifies whether or not the prep tool will sort the references in
       each reference section.

rfc[submissionType]:

    -  The document stream, as described in <xref target="RFC7841"/>.  (The RFC Series
       Editor may change the list of allowed values in the future.)

rfc[symRefs]:

    -  Specifies whether or not a formatter is requested to use symbolic
       references (such as "<xref target="RFC2119"/>").  If the value for this is "false",
       the references come out as numbers (such as "[3]").

rfc[tocDepth]:

    -  Specifies the number of levels of headings that a formatter is
       requested to include in the table of contents.

rfc[tocInclude]:

    -  Specifies whether or not a formatter is requested to include a table
       of contents in generated files.

rfc[updates]:

    -  A comma-separated list of RFC numbers or Internet-Draft names.

    -  The prep tool will parse the attribute value so that incorrect
       references can be detected.

rfc[version]:

    -  Specifies the version of xml2rfc syntax used in this document.  The
       only expected value (for now) is "3".

section:

    -  Represents a section (when inside a \<middle\> element) or an appendix
       (when inside a \<back\> element).

    -  'Subsections are created by nesting \<section\> elements inside
       \<section\> elements.  Sections are allowed to be empty.'

section[numbered]:

    - If set to "false", the formatter is requested to not display a section
      number.  The prep tool will verify that such a section is not followed by
      a numbered section in this part of the document.  Descendant sections of
      unnumbered sections are unnumbered by definition.  (New) Both top-level \<section\>s
      and other \<section\>s may have <tt>numbered='false'</tt>.

section[removeInRFC]:

    -  If set to "true", this section is marked in the prep tool with text
       indicating that it should be removed before the document is published
       as an RFC.  That text will be "This section is to be removed before
       publishing as an RFC."

section[toc]:

    -  'Indicates to a formatter whether or not the section is to be included
       in a table of contents, if such a table of contents is produced.
       This only takes effect if the level of the section would have
       appeared in the table of contents based on the "tocDepth" attribute
       of the \<rfc\> element, and of course only if the table of contents is
       being created based on the "tocInclude" attribute of the \<rfc\>
       element.  If this is set to "exclude", any section below this one
       will be excluded as well.  The "default" value indicates inclusion of
       the section if it would be included by the tocDepth attribute of the
       \<rfc\> element.'

seriesInfo:

    - Specifies the document series in which this document appears, and
      also specifies an identifier within that series.

    - 'A processing tool determines whether it is working on an RFC or an
      Internet-Draft by inspecting the "name" attribute of a \<seriesInfo\>
      element inside the \<front\> element inside the \<rfc\> element, looking for
      "RFC" or "Internet-Draft".  (Specifying neither value in any of the
      \<seriesInfo\> elements can be useful for producing other types of documents
      but is out of scope for this specification.)'

    - It is invalid to have multiple \<seriesInfo\> elements inside the same
      \<front\> element containing the same "name" value.  Some combinations
      of \<seriesInfo\> "name" attribute values make no sense, such as having
      both \<seriesInfo name="rfc"/\> and \<seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft"/\>
      in the same \<front\> element.

seriesInfo[asciiName]:

    - The ASCII equivalent of the name field.

seriesInfo[name]:

    - The name of the series.  Some values in use by the IETF community are "RFC",
      "Internet-Draft", and "DOI", but other names such as "ISO", "W3C" for
      exist for other standardisation organisations.

seriesInfo[value]:

    - The identifier within the series specified by the "name" attribute.

    - For BCPs, FYIs, RFCs, and STDs, this is the number within the series.

    - For Internet-Drafts, it is the full draft name (ending with the
      two-digit version number).

    - For DOIs, the value is given, such as "10.17487/rfc1149", as described in <xref target="RFC7669"/>.

    - The name in the value should be the document name without any file
      extension.

seriesInfo[asciiValue]:

    - The ASCII equivalent of the value field.

seriesInfo[stream]:

    - Deprecated.  Use the \<<xref target="element-stream">stream</xref>\> element instead.

sortingcode:

    -  A sorting code is related to postal codes in that it is used in
       addresses to allow sorting, for example to route mail to a certain
       postal centre or to distinguish streets with the same name in two
       different areas of the same settlement.

sourcecode:

    -  This element allows the inclusion of source code into the document.

    -  'When rendered, source code is always shown in a monospace font.  When
       \<sourcecode\> is a child of \<figure\> or \<section\>, it provides full
       control of horizontal whitespace and line breaks.  When formatted, it
       is indented relative to the left margin of the enclosing element.  It
       is thus useful for source code and formal languages (such as ABNF
       <xref target="RFC5234"/> or the RNC notation used in this document).  (When
       \<sourcecode\> is a child of other elements, it flows with the text
       that surrounds it.)  Tab characters (U+0009) inside of this element
       are prohibited.'

    -  For artwork such as character-based art, diagrams of message layouts,
       and so on, use the \<artwork\> element instead.

    -  Output formatters that do pagination will attempt to keep source
       code on a single page.  This is to prevent source code that is split
       across pages from looking like two separate pieces of code.

sourcecode[markers]:

    - Indicates whether "\<CODE BEGINS\>" and "\<CODE ENDS\>" markers, as
      introduced by <xref target="RFC6087"/>, should be generated when
      rendering the \<sourcecode\> element.  The alternative is to include
      these explicitly inside the element, but that would necessitate
      extra code to strip these, when extracting code from the XML
      source.

sourcecode[name]:

    -  'A filename suitable for the contents (such as for extraction to a
       local file).  This attribute can be helpful for other kinds of tools
       (such as automated syntax checkers, which work by extracting the
       source code).  Note that the "name" attribute does not need to be
       unique for \<sourcecode\> elements in a document.  If multiple
       \<sourcecode\> elements have the same "name" attribute, a formatter
       might assume that the elements are all fragments of a single file,
       and such a formatter can collect those fragments for later
       processing.'

sourcecode[src]:

    -  The URI reference of a source file <xref target="RFC3986"/>.

    -  'It is an error to have both a "src" attribute and content in the
       \<sourcecode\> element.'

sourcecode[type]:

    -  Specifies the type of the source code.  The value of this attribute
       is free text with certain values designated as preferred.

    -  Most of the preferred values for \<sourcecode\> types are language
       names, in a wide sense, such as "abnf", "asn.1", "bash", "c++", etc.

    - The RFC Series Editor maintains a list of the preferred values on the
      RFC Editor web site
      at <eref target="https://www.rfc-editor.org/materials/sourcecode-types.txt"/>,
      and that list is updated over time.  Thus, a consumer of v3 XML
      should not cause a failure when it encounters an unexpected type or no
      type is specified.

stream:

    - Indicates which stream an RFC belongs to.

street:

    -  Provides a street address.

strong:

    - Indicates text that is semantically strong.  In HTML and PDF rendering,
      text enclosed within this element will be displayed as bold after
      processing; in text rendering it will be preceeded and followed by an
      asterisk.  This element can be combined with other character formatting
      elements, and the formatting will be additive.

sub:

    - Causes the text to be displayed as subscript, approximately half a
      letter-height lower than normal text, in HTML and PDF rendering.  This
      element can be combined with other character formatting elements, and the
      formatting will be additive.

sup:

    - Causes the text to be displayed as superscript, approximately half a
      letter-height higher than normal text, in HTML and PDF rendering.  This
      element can be combined with other character formatting elements, and the
      formatting will be additive.

t:

    -  Contains a paragraph of text.

t[anchor]:

    -  Document-wide unique identifier for this paragraph.

t[hangText]:

    - Deprecated.  Instead, use \<dd\> inside of a definition list (\<dl\>).

t[indent]:

    - Indicates any extra amount of indentation to be used when rendering the
      paragraph of text.  The indentation amount is interpreted as characters
      when rendering plain-text documents, and en-space units when rendering in
      formats that have richer typographic support such as HTML or PDF.  One
      en-space is assumed to be the length of 0.5 em-space in CSS units.  Only
      non-negative integer amounts of indentation are supported.

t[keepWithNext]:

    -  'Acts as a hint to the output formatters that do pagination to do a
       best-effort attempt to keep the paragraph with the next element,
       whatever that happens to be.  For example, for HTML output <tt>@media print</tt>
       CSS might translate this to page-break-after: avoid.  For PDF, the paginator could
       attempt to keep the paragraph with the next element.  Note: this
       attribute is strictly a hint and not always actionable.'

t[keepWithPrevious]:

    -  'Acts as a hint to the output formatters that do pagination to do a
       best-effort attempt to keep the paragraph with the previous element,
       whatever that happens to be.  For example, for HTML output <tt>@media print</tt>
       CSS might translate this to page-break-before: avoid.  For PDF,
       the paginator could attempt to keep the paragraph with the previous
       element.  Note: this attribute is strictly a hint and not always
       actionable.'

table:

    - Contains a table with a caption with the table number.  If the
      element contains a \<name\> element, the caption will also show that
      name.

    - "Inside the \<table\> element there is, optionally, a \<thead\> element to
      contain the rows that will be the table's heading and, optionally, a
      \<tfoot\> element to contain the rows of the table's footer.  If the
      XML is converted to a representation that has page breaks (such as
      PDFs or printed HTML), the header and footer are meant to appear on
      each page."

table[align]:

    -  Controls whether the table appears left justified, centered, 
       or right justified.  The caption will be centered under
       the table, and the combined table and caption will be aligned
       according to the "align" attribute.

tbody:

    -  A container for a set of body rows for a table.

td:

    -  A cell in a table row.

td[align]:

    -  Controls whether the content of the cell appears left justified,
       centered, or right justified.  Note that "center" or
       "right" will probably only work well in cells with plain text; any
       other elements might make the contents render badly.

td[colspan]:

    -  The number of columns that the cell is to span.  For example, setting
       "colspan='3'" indicates that the cell occupies the same horizontal
       space as three cells of a row without any "colspan" attributes.

td[rowspan]:

    -  The number of rows that the cell is to span.  For example, setting
       "rowspan='3'" indicates that the cell occupies the same vertical
       space as three rows.

tfoot:

    -  A container for a set of footer rows for a table.

th:

    -  A cell in a table row.  When rendered, this will normally come out in
       boldface; other than that, there is no difference between this and
       the \<td\> element.

th[align]:

    -  Controls whether the content of the cell appears left justified, 
       centered, or right justified.  Note that "center" or
       "right" will probably only work well in cells with plain text; any
       other elements might make the contents render badly.

th[colspan]:

    -  The number of columns that the cell is to span.  For example, setting
       "colspan='3'" indicates that the cell occupies the same horizontal
       space as three cells of a row without any "colspan" attributes.

th[rowspan]:

    -  The number of rows that the cell is to span.  For example, setting
       "rowspan='3'" indicates that the cell occupies the same vertical
       space as three rows.

thead:

    -  A container for a set of header rows for a table.

title:

    -  Represents the document title.

    -  When this element appears in the \<front\> element of the current
       document, the title might also appear in page headers or footers.  If
       it is long (~40 characters), the "abbrev" attribute can be used to
       specify an abbreviated variant.

title[abbrev]:

    -  Specifies an abbreviated variant of the document title.

toc:

    - This element contains the Table of Content.  The content of the \<toc\>
      element is generated by the preptool based on the "tocInclude" and
      "tocDepth" attributes of the \<rfc\> element.  As a document author,
      you should not use \<toc\> directly.

tr:

    -  A row of a table.

tt:

    -  Causes the text to be displayed in a constant-width font.  This
       element can be combined with other character formatting elements, and
       the formatting will be additive.

u:

    -  "In xml2rfc vocabulary version 3, the elements \<author\>,
       \<organisation\>, \<street\>, \<city\>, \<region\>, \<code\>, \<country\>,
       \<postalLine\>, \<email\>, \<seriesInfo\>, and \<title\> may contain non-
       ascii characters for the purpose of rendering author names,
       addresses, and reference titles correctly.  They also have an
       additional \"ascii\" attribute for the purpose of proper rendering in
       ascii-only media."


    -  'In order to insert Unicode characters in any other context, xml2rfc
       vocabulary v3 requires that the Unicode string be enclosed within an
       \<u\> element.  The element will be expanded inline based on the value
       of a "format" attribute.  This provides a generalised means of
       generating the 6 methods of Unicode renderings listed in <xref target="RFC7997"/>,
       Section 3.4, and also several others found in for instance the RFC
       Format Tools example rendering of RFC 7700, at <eref 
       target="https://rfc-format.github.io/draft-iab-rfc-css-bis/sample2-v2.html"/>.'

u[format]:

    -  The "format" attribute accepts either a simplified format
       specification, or a full format string with placeholders for the
       various possible Unicode expansions.


    -  "The simplified format consists of dash-separated keywords, where each
       keyword represents a possible expansion of the Unicode character or
       string; use for example \"\<u \"lit-num-name\"\>foo\</u\>\" to expand the
       text to its literal value, code point values, and code point names."


    -  'A combination of up to 3 of the following keywords may be used,
       separated by dashes: "num", "lit", "name", "ascii", "char".  The
       keywords are expanded as follows and combined, with the second and
       third enclosed in parentheses if present:'


    -
       "num": The numeric value(s) of the element text, in U+1234
               notation

       "name":  The Unicode name(s) of the element text

       "lit":  The literal element text, enclosed in quotes

       "char":  The literal element text, without quotes

       "ascii":  "The value of the 'ascii' attribute on the \<u\> element"


    -  In order to ensure that no specification mistakes can result for
       rendering methods that cannot render all Unicode code points, "num"
       MUST always be part of the specified format.

    -  |
        <section anchor="element-unicode-format-examples" numbered="true" toc="default">
              <name>Examples</name>
              <t>
                 Examples:
              </t>
              <dl newline="false" indent="3" spacing="normal">
                 <dt/>
                 <dd>
                 <dl newline="true" spacing="normal">
                    <dt>format="num-lit":</dt>
                    <dd>
                       Temperature changes in the Temperature Control Protocol are
                       indicated by the character <u format="num-lit">Δ</u>.</dd>
                    <dt>format="num-name":</dt>
                    <dd>
                       Temperature changes in the Temperature Control Protocol are
                       indicated by the character <u format="num-name">Δ</u>.</dd>
                    <dt>format="num-lit-name":</dt>
                    <dd>
                       Temperature changes in the Temperature Control Protocol are
                       indicated by the character <u format="num-lit-name">Δ</u>.</dd>
                    <dt>format="num-name-lit":</dt>
                    <dd>
                       Temperature changes in the Temperature Control Protocol are
                       indicated by the character <u format="num-name-lit">Δ</u>.</dd>
                    <dt>format="name-lit-num":</dt>
                    <dd>
                       Temperature changes in the Temperature Control Protocol are
                       indicated by the character <u format="name-lit-num">Δ</u>.</dd>
                    <dt>format="lit-name-num":</dt>
                    <dd>
                       Temperature changes in the Temperature Control Protocol are
                       indicated by the character <u format="lit-name-num">Δ</u>.</dd>
                 </dl>
                 </dd>
              </dl>
        </section>
        <section anchor="element-unicode-multi" numbered="true" toc="default">
           <name>Expansion of &lt;u&gt; multi-codepoint strings</name>
           <t>
              If the &lt;u&gt; element encloses a sequence of Unicode codepoints, rather than
              a single one, the rendering
              reflects this.  The element
           </t>
           <artwork name="" type="" align="left" alt=""><![CDATA[   <u format="num-lit">ᏚᎢᎵᎬᎢᎬᏒ</u>]]></artwork>
           <t>
              will be expanded to "<u format="num-lit">ᏚᎢᎵᎬᎢᎬᏒ</u>".
           </t>
           <t>
              Unicode characters in document text which are not enclosed in &lt;u&gt;
              will be replaced with a question mark (?) and a warning will be issued.
           </t>
        </section>
        <section anchor="element-unicode-full-format" numbered="true" toc="default">
           <name>Non-simplified &lt;u&gt; format specifications</name>
           <t>
              In order to provide for cases where the simplified format above is insufficient,
              without relinquishing the requirement that the number of a code point always must
              be rendered, the "format" attribute can also accept a full format string.  This
              format uses placeholders which consist of any of the key words above enclosed in
              curly braces; outside of this, any ascii text is permissible.  For example,
           </t>
           <artwork name="" type="" align="left" alt=""><![CDATA[   The <u format="{lit} character ({num})">Δ</u>.]]></artwork>
           <t>
              will be rendered as
           </t>
           <artwork name="" type="" align="left" alt=""><![CDATA[   The "Δ" character (U+0394).]]></artwork>
           <t>
              As for the simplified format, "num" MUST always be part of the
              specified format in order to ensure that no specification
              mistakes can result for rendering methods that cannot render all
              Unicode code points, 
           </t>
        </section>
        <section anchor="element-unicode-split-expansions" numbered="true" toc="default">
          <name>Split expansion of &lt;u&gt; elements</name>
          <t>
               There are cases which cannot be handled with either the simplified or full &lt;u&gt;
               format specifications.  One is exemplified in Table 1 of the CSS sample document
               at <eref target="https://rfc-format.github.io/draft-iab-rfc-css-bis/sample2-v2.html#s-3"/>.
               Rendering this with &lt;u&gt; elements requires that the non-ascii content be rendered
               in one place (a table cell in one column) while the expansion is rendered in another
               cell in a different column.  Provision for this has been made by modifying the expansion
               of &lt;u&gt; when it is referenced by an &lt;xref&gt;.  This table, with &lt;u&gt; elements
               referenced by &lt;xref&gt; instances:
          </t>
          <artwork name="" type="" align="left" alt=""><![CDATA[
           <table>
             <name>A Sample of Legal Nicknames</name>
             <thead>
               <tr>
                  <th>#</th>
                  <th>Nickname</th>
                  <th>Output for comparison</th>
               </tr>
             </thead>
             <tbody>
               <tr>
                  <td>1</td>
                  <td>&lt;Foo&gt;</td>
                  <td>&lt;foo&gt;</td>
               </tr>
               <tr>
                  <td>2</td>
                  <td>&lt;foo&gt;</td>
                  <td>&lt;foo&gt;</td> </tr>
               <tr>
                  <td>3</td>
                  <td>&lt;Foo Bar&gt;</td>
                  <td>&lt;foo bar&gt;</td>
               </tr>
               <tr>
                  <td>4</td>
                  <td>&lt;foo bar&gt;</td>
                  <td>&lt;foo bar&gt;</td>
               </tr>
               <tr>
                 <td>5</td>
                 <td>
                    &lt;
                    <u format="name-num" anchor="greek-upper-sigma">Σ</u>
                    &gt;
                 </td>
                 <td> <xref target="greek-upper-sigma" /> </td>
               </tr>
               <tr>
                  <td>6</td>
                  <td>
                     &lt;
                     <u format="name-num" anchor="greek-lower-sigma">σ</u>
                     &gt;
                  </td>
                  <td> <xref target="greek-lower-sigma" /> </td>
               </tr>
               <tr>
                  <td>7</td>
                  <td>
                     &lt;
                     <u format="name-num" anchor="greek-final-sigma">ς</u>
                     &gt;
                  </td>
                  <td> <xref target="greek-final-sigma" /> </td>
               </tr>
               <tr>
                  <td>8</td>
                  <td>
                     &lt;
                     <u format="name-num" anchor="black-chess-king">♚</u>
                     &gt;
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <xref target="black-chess-king" format="default"/>
                  </td>
               </tr>
               <tr>
                  <td>9</td>
                  <td>
                     &lt;Richard
                     <u format="{char}> ({num})" anchor="richard-iv">Ⅳ</u>
                     &gt;
                  </td>
                  <td>&lt;richard iv&gt;</td>
               </tr>
             </tbody>
           </table>
               ]]>
          </artwork>
          <t>
             comes out as shown below:             
          </t>
          <table>
            <name>A Sample of Legal Nicknames</name>
            <thead>
              <tr> <th>#</th> <th>Nickname</th> <th>Output for comparison</th> </tr>
            </thead>
            <tbody>
              <tr> <td>1</td> <td>&lt;Foo&gt;</td> <td>&lt;foo&gt;</td> </tr>
              <tr> <td>2</td> <td>&lt;foo&gt;</td> <td>&lt;foo&gt;</td> </tr>
              <tr> <td>3</td> <td>&lt;Foo Bar&gt;</td> <td>&lt;foo bar&gt;</td> </tr>
              <tr> <td>4</td> <td>&lt;foo bar&gt;</td> <td>&lt;foo bar&gt;</td> </tr>
              <tr> <td>5</td> <td>&lt;<u format="name-num" anchor="greek-upper-sigma">Σ</u>&gt;</td>
                                                  <td> <xref target="greek-upper-sigma" /> </td> </tr>
              <tr> <td>6</td> <td>&lt;<u format="name-num" anchor="greek-lower-sigma">σ</u>&gt;</td>
                                                  <td> <xref target="greek-lower-sigma" /> </td> </tr>
              <tr> <td>7</td> <td>&lt;<u format="name-num" anchor="greek-final-sigma">ς</u>&gt;</td>
                                                  <td> <xref target="greek-final-sigma" /> </td> </tr>
              <tr> <td>8</td> <td>&lt;<u format="name-num" anchor="black-chess-king">♚</u>&gt;</td>
                                                  <td> <xref target="black-chess-king" format="default"/></td> </tr>
              <tr> <td>9</td> <td>&lt;Richard <u format="{char}> ({num})" anchor="richard-iv">Ⅳ</u></td>
                                                  <td>&lt;richard iv&gt;</td> </tr>
            </tbody>
          </table>
        </section>

u[ascii]:

    - The ASCII equivalent of the content, to be used if the "ascii" keyword
      is used in the "format" specification.

ul:

    -  An unordered list.  The labels on the items will be symbols picked by
       the formatter.

ul[bare]:

    -  Can only be used with empty="true" (see below).  Determines if the blank bullet
       has an horizontal extension or not.  With bare="false", the empty
       list bullet will still occupy the same space as for empty="false".
       With empty="true", there will be no bullet at all, i.e., the
       list items will have no indentation.

    -  'Example: an unordered list with bare="true" and empty="true":'

    -  <ul bare="true" empty="true"><li>One</li><li>Two</li></ul>

ul[empty]:

    -  Defines whether or not the list item bullets are empty. empty="true" indicates
       that a blank (empty) bullet will be shown.

    -  'Example: an unordered list with bare="false" and empty="false":'

    -  <ul bare="false" empty="false"><li>One</li><li>Two</li></ul>

    -  'Example: an unordered list with bare="false" and empty="true":'

    -  <ul bare="false" empty="true"><li>One</li><li>Two</li></ul>

ul[indent]:

    - The indentation of the list elements relative to the start of the bullet
      or bullet text.

ul[spacing]:

    -  Defines whether or not there is a blank line between entries.
       spacing="normal" indicates a single blank line, while
       spacing="compact" indicates no blank line between entries.

uri:

    -  Contains a web address associated with the author.

    -  'The contents should be a valid URI; this most likely will be an
       "http:" or "https:" URI.'


workgroup:

    -  This element is used to specify the Working Group (IETF) or Research
       Group (IRTF) from which the document originates, if any.  The
       recommended format is the official name of the Working Group (with
       some capitalization).

    -  In Internet-Drafts, this is used in the upper left corner of the
       boilerplate, replacing the "Network Working Group" string.
       Formatting software can append the words "Working Group" or "Research
       Group", depending on the "submissionType" property of the \<rfc\>
       element (Section 2.48.12).


xref:

    -  A reference to an anchor in this document.  Formatters that have
       links (such as HTML and PDF) are likely to render \<xref\> elements as
       internal hyperlinks.  This element is useful for referring to
       references in the "References" section, to specific sections of the
       document, to specific figures, and so on.

    - If the "section" attribute is present, this represents a link to a
      specific part of a document that appears in a \<reference\> element.
      Formatters that have links (such as HTML and PDF) render \<xref\> elements
      with "section" attributes
      as external hyperlinks to the specified part of the reference, creating
      the link target by combining the base URI from the \<reference\> element
      with the "relative" attribute from this element.  The "target" attribute
      is required, and it must be the anchor of a \<reference\> element.

    - If the reference is not an RFC or Internet-Draft that is
      in the v3 format, the element needs to have a "relative" attribute;
      in this case, the value of the "section" attribute is used to render
      the text of the external link.

    - If the "section" attribute is present, the rendering will for most
      combinations of the "format" and "sectionFormat" have two links; one
      external link to the specific part of the referenced document, and
      one internal link to the \<reference\> entry.

    - The attribute "format" affect the internal link rendering only, and
      the "sectionFormat" affects the rendering of the external link and
      its textual relationship to the internal link only.

xref[sectionFormat]:

    -  This attribute is used to signal formatters what the desired format
       of the external reference should be.  Formatters for document types
       that have linking capability should wrap each part of the displayed
       text in hyperlinks.  If there is content in the \<xref\> element,
       that content will be used when rendering the internal link part of
       the \<xref\> rendering, but will not affect the external link.

xref[sectionFormat="of"]:

    -  The \<xref\> element will be displayed as an external link followed
       by an internal link, separated by the work 'of'.  The external link
       will have as its display text the word "Section" followed by a space
       and the contents of the "section" attribute.  This will be followed
       by a space, the word "of", another space, and an internal link to
       the relevant \<reference\> entry, formatted based on the "format"
       attribute.

xref[sectionFormat="comma"]:

    -  The \<xref\> element will be displayed as an internal link followed
       by an external link, separated by a comma.  The external link
       will have as its display text the word "Section" followed by a space
       and the contents of the "section" attribute.  The internal link will
       point to the relevant \<reference\> entry, and will be rendered according
       to the "format" attribute.

xref[sectionFormat="parens"]:

    -  The \<xref\> element will be displayed as an internal link followed
       by an external link within parentheses.  The external link
       will have as its display text the word "Section" followed by a space
       and the contents of the "section" attribute.  The internal link will
       point to the relevant \<reference\> entry, and will be rendered according
       to the "format" attribute.

xref[sectionFormat="bare"]:

    -  The \<xref\> element will be displayed as an external link, possibly
       followed by the same link within parentheses.  The first external link
       will have as its display text only contents of the "section" attribute;
       the second link will be present within parentheses only if the \<xref\> element 
       has any text content, and will then have the text content as
       its display text.

    -  This value for the "sectionFormat" attribute is useful when it is
       desired to express for instance "Sections
       <xref target="RFC7997" format="default" sectionFormat="bare" section="3.2"/> and 
       <xref target="RFC7997" format="default" sectionFormat="bare" section="3.3"/> of
       <xref target="RFC7997" format="default"/>".

xref[format]:

    -  This attribute signals to formatters what the desired format of the
       internal link to the relevant \<reference\> should be.

xref[format="counter"]:

       -  The "derivedContent" attribute will contain just a counter.  This
          is used for targets that are \<section\>, \<figure\>, \<table\>, or
          items in an ordered list.  Using "format='counter'" where the
          target is any other type of element is an error.

xref[format="default"]:

       -  If the element has no content, the "derivedContent" attribute will
          contain a text fragment that describes the referenced part
          completely, such as "XML" for a target that is a \<reference\>, or
          "Section 2" or "Table 4" for a target to a non-reference. 

xref[format="none"]:

       -  There will be no autogenerated text for the xref.  When this value
          is used, it expected that the \<xref\> element will have explicit
          text content.

xref[format="title"]:

       -  'If the target is a \<reference\> element, the "derivedContent"
          attribute will contain the name of the reference, extracted from
          the \<title\> child of the \<front\> child of the reference.  Or, if
          the target element has a \<name\> child element, the
          "derivedContent" attribute will contain the text content of that
          \<name\> element concatenated with the text content of each
          descendant node of \<name\> (that is, stripping out all of the XML
          markup, leaving only the text).  Or, if the target element does
          not contain a \<name\> child element, the "derivedContent" attribute
          will contain the name of the "anchor" attribute of that element
          with no other adornment.'

xref[target]:

    -  Identifies the document component being referenced.  The value needs
       to match the value of the "anchor" attribute of an element in the
       document; otherwise, it is an error.

xref[section]:

    -  Specifies a section of the target reference.  If the reference is not
       an RFC or Internet-Draft in the v3 format, and no "relative" attribute
       has been provided, it is an error.

xref[relative]:

    - Specifies a relative reference from the URI in the target reference.
      This value must include whatever leading character is needed to
      create the relative reference; typically, this is "#" for HTML
      documents.


# --- Command-line switches ------------------------------------------------

--config-file:

    - This argument can be repeated, to read multiple explicitly specified
      config files.  They will be read after any config files found in
      'standard' locations have been read.  Run <tt>xml2rfc --values</tt> to see
      the default search path for config files.

--docfile:

    -   'The <tt>--docfile</tt> and <tt>--manpage</tt> switches takes input from 5 places:'

    -
      - The <tt>v3.rng</tt> file distributed as part of the xml2rfc package,
        which is also used to validate and process v3 XML input.

      - A <tt>rfc7991.rng</tt> file distributed as part of the xml2rfc package,
        which holds the schema defined in <xref target="RFC7991"/>.  This is
        used in determining elements and attributes that are new in the
        current <tt>v3.rng</tt> schema, compared to the RFC7991 schema.

      - Lists of deprecated elements and attributes, which are part of the
        xml2rfc source.

      - A YAML file <tt>doc.yaml</tt> that contains XML snippets with
        descriptions of elements, attributes, attribute values, and switches,
        from the same directory as <tt>doc.xml</tt>.

      - An XML template file <tt>doc.xml</tt>, by default taken from the
        <tt>templates</tt> directory of the xml2rfc package (but this can
        be changed with the <tt>--templates-dir</tt> switch).  The 4 preceding
        sources provide content that is used to expand the template file when
        generating the <tt>--&wj;docfile</tt> and <tt>--&wj;manpage</tt> output.

--manpage:

    - Generates on-the-fly paged text documentation for the v3 schema elements
      and attributes from the v3 RelaxNG schema file which is part of the
      xml2rfc distribution, and YAML and XML files that provide the text content
      and formatting.  See the <tt>--docfile</tt> switch for more details.

--pagination:

    - By default, drafts are paginated, but not RFCs.  Use this switch if you
      want to force pagination of all text output.

--silence:

    - "Specifies a string prefix or a regular expression to match against warning
      messages.  Any warning message that matches is silenced.  Example:"

    - <sourcecode>xml2rfc --silence='The document date' draft-foo-bar.xml</sourcecode>

    - This will not show any message about the document date being too far from
      the current date.  The option can be repeated with different prefix strings
      or regular expressions in order to silence multiple warning messages.

    - "Alternatively, instead of indicating this on the command line, an 
      xml2rfc-specific PI (processing instruction) is available for use in XML input files.
      This will have the same effect as the example above, except when
      processing prepped drafts; running the preptool on a file will strip
      XML PIs before writing the prepped file:"

    - <sourcecode>\<?v3xml2rfc silence="The document date" ?\></sourcecode>

--skip-config-files:

    - Use this to ignore values in config files, even if there are config
      files in the search path.  Somewhat ironically, this option can itself
      be set in a config file, and cause all other config file settings to
      be ignored.

--table-borders:

    - "Examples (these will only have visible differences in text mode):"

    - '"full":':
      - <?v3xml2rfc table_borders="full" ?>
        <table>
        <thead><tr><th>A</th><th>B</th><th>C</th></tr></thead>
        <tbody>
        <tr><td>a   </td><td>b    </td><td>c    </td></tr>
        <tr><td>aa  </td><td>ba   </td><td>ca   </td></tr>
        <tr><td>ab  </td><td>bb   </td><td>cb   </td></tr>
        <tr><th>AA  </th><th>BB   </th><th>CC   </th></tr>
        <tr><td>aaa </td><td>bba  </td><td>cca  </td></tr>
        <tr><td>aab </td><td>bbb  </td><td>ccb  </td></tr>
        </tbody>
        </table>

    - '"light":':
      - <?v3xml2rfc table_borders="light" ?>
        <table>
        <thead><tr><th>A</th><th>B</th><th>C</th></tr></thead>
        <tbody>
        <tr><td>a   </td><td>b    </td><td>c    </td></tr>
        <tr><td>aa  </td><td>ba   </td><td>ca   </td></tr>
        <tr><td>ab  </td><td>bb   </td><td>cb   </td></tr>
        <tr><th>AA  </th><th>BB   </th><th>CC   </th></tr>
        <tr><td>aaa </td><td>bba  </td><td>cca  </td></tr>
        <tr><td>aab </td><td>bbb  </td><td>ccb  </td></tr>
        </tbody>
        </table>

    - '"minimal":':
      - <?v3xml2rfc table_borders="minimal" ?>
        <table>
        <thead><tr><th>A</th><th>B</th><th>C</th></tr></thead>
        <tbody>
        <tr><td>a   </td><td>b    </td><td>c    </td></tr>
        <tr><td>aa  </td><td>ba   </td><td>ca   </td></tr>
        <tr><td>ab  </td><td>bb   </td><td>cb   </td></tr>
        <tr><th>AA  </th><th>BB   </th><th>CC   </th></tr>
        <tr><td>aaa </td><td>bba  </td><td>cca  </td></tr>
        <tr><td>aab </td><td>bbb  </td><td>ccb  </td></tr>
        </tbody>
        </table>

--template-dir:

    - This is used to find the templates used by the <tt>--&wj;docfile</tt> and <tt>--&wj;manpage</tt>
      commands and for legacy .html template and .dtd files.

    - "A consequence of being able to specify a different template directory
      than the default is that it's possible to use the <tt>--&wj;docfile</tt> command to
      generate additional documentation XML files based on the current V3
      grammar file.  The default template and snippets file does not include
      documentation for deprecated elements and attributes, for instance; but
      if it is desired to generate such documentation from the distributed
      V3 RelaxNg schema, it should be straightforward.  The templating system
      used is Jinja2; the snippets file is YAML with extra support for some
      escape sequences: '\\ \<' and '\\ \>'."

--v2:

    - Invokes the legacy (schema v2) validator and output formatters, instead
      of the default schema v3 output formatters.  This can only be used with
      pure v2 input files.

--v3:

    - This is the default.  With both v2 schema and v3 schema XML input files,
      use the v3 output formatters.  Input with deprecated v2 elements will be
      converted to v3 on the fly.  This means some loss of functionality and
      exact control of the output, due to the intermediary conversion step.

--values:

    - "This shows (in order):"

    -
      - Command line arguments
      - Config file settings, per config file
      - Default values
      - Config file search path

--version:

    - With the <tt>--verbose</tt> switch, the versions of the external python
      modules used will also be shown.
        

# --- Named sections -------------------------------------------------------

Abstract:

    - This document provides information about the XML schema implemented in
      this release of xml2rfc, and the individual elements of that schema.  The
      document is generated from the RNG schema file that is part of the xml2rfc
      distribution, so schema information in this document should always be in
      sync with the schema in actual use.  The textual descriptions depend on
      manual updates in order to reflect the implementation.

Introduction:

    - Most elements listed in this documentation will have a "Content schema"
      entry.  This shows the permitted content for the element, expressed in
      <xref target="RNC">RelaxNG Compact Notation</xref>.  For relatively
      trivial cases such as the ones in this document, the notation is quite
      straightforward, and resembles simple regular expressions, but with
      element names as atoms, instead of individual characters as atoms.  A
      trailing '*' indicates zero or more instances; '+' indicates one or more,
      '?' indicates zero or one.  '|' separates choices within a parenthesized
      group, and ',' separates entries in a sequence.

    - Some attributes which are valid according to the schema are not listed
      in this documentation, mostly because they primarily are used
      by the preptool, and are not useful to document authors.

    - Elements and attributes that have been introduced after the publication
      of the original schema version 3 specification, <xref target="RFC7991"/>,
      have been marked with '(New)' in this document.

    - For an introduction to
      the v3 schema, with suggestions on how to transition from v2,
      see <xref target="INTRO-TO-V3"/>.

    - The latest version of this documentation is available in HTML form
      at <eref target="https://ietf-tools.github.io/xml2rfc/"/>.

Options:

    - The following command-line options are available.  Long options may be
      shortened to the shortest substring that still makes the option string
      unique, when given on the command line.  In config files, the full
      long option string must be used.

Configuration:

    - Most options have built-in defaults, and the command-line switches above
      can be used to override those.  Additionally, <tt>xml2rfc</tt> will
      look for config files in some standard file locations.  The option
      <tt>--&wj;values</tt> will show the places <tt>xml2rfc</tt> will look for
      config files on your system (among other information).  Any settings
      in config files will override
      the program defaults, but will in turn be overridden by command-line
      options.

    - "The config files are expected to contain lines with option value assignments.
      Lines with '#' as the first character are considered comments.  Here is an
      example:"

    - |
      <sourcecode>
      # ----
      legacy-date-format = true
      add-xinclude = true
      external-js = false
      # ----
      </sourcecode>

    - The complete long option names must be used in configuration files; 
      abbreviations will not be recognised (in contrast with how abbreviations
      are handled during command-line option processing).

      
     
