On 2020-07-20 17:17, Henrik Levkowetz wrote: > Hi, > > It's taken a lot longer than we thought, but I expect the next release of > xml2rfc to be 3.0.0. I currently plan to do the 3.0.0 release shortly after > IETF 108. I've been asked to clarify whether the conversion to 3.0.0 will mean the end of support for the v2 (RFC 7749) vocabulary or whether that vocabulary (DTD/Schema) will continue to be supported. Short: The v2 vocabulary will continue to be supported. The longer answer is that (as indicated below) the default _output_ format will change to use the v3 renderer. xml2rfc will continue to accept v2 input, but by default it will send it through the v2-to-v3 converter, and process the resulting v3 xml through the v3 formatters. If you want to use the v2 formatters directly from the v2 XML, you will need to give the --legacy switch to xml2rfc. Best regards, Henrik > Best regards, > > Henrik > > On 2019-10-08 23:23, Russ Housley wrote: >> Heads up! >> >> With the transition to xml2rfc vocabulary version 3, xml2rfc has gained >> the ability to generate PDF output when the necessary system libraries >> are installed. However, xml2rfc runs on Python 2.7, but the library >> needed for PDF generation ended support for Python 2.7 about 10 >> releases ago. This means that the need to end support for xml2rfc on >> Python 2.7 is becoming urgent. Another factor is that bugfix support >> for Python 2.7.x itself officially stops on 1 January 2020, so we need >> to transition away from Python 2.7 soon in any case. >> >> The latest xml2rfc release is 2.32.0. There will most likely be one or >> two additional xml2rfc releases in the 2.x series, but after that, the >> plan is to transition to a 3.x release series, with two major changes: >> >> (1) xml2rfc will no longer run under Python 2.7; it will require >> Python 3.5 or higher. If you cannot install and run Python 3 on >> your system, the web service at xml2rfc.ietf.org can be used. >> >> (2) The default output formatters will change to v3. The v2 formatters >> will still be available by using a --legacy switch. >> >> Expect the first xml2rfc 3.x series release before the end of the month. >> >> On behalf of the Tools Team, >> Russ >> >> >
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