KRAMDOWN-RFC(1)

💖 KRAMDOWN-RFC 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the kramdown-rfc page — it's a General Commands Manual situation and honestly? it ate. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

kramdown-rfc — tool to generate XML2RFC XML from Markdown

like. that's the whole gig. markdown in, fancy RFC XML out. iconic behavior honestly 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

kramdown-rfc [mydraft.mkd]

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. optionally hand it a file, or don't, we'll get to that 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so kramdown(1) is a markdown parser by Thomas Leitner, and the way it works is it has a bunch of backends for generating HTML, Latex, and markdown again. multi-talented fr fr.

kramdown-rfc is an additional backend to that ✨ — it lets you generate XML2RFC XML markup (also known as RFC 2629, RFC 7449, or RFC 7991 compliant markup, iykyk). it's designed as a source format for documents in the Internet-Drafts (I-Ds) and Request for Comments (RFC) series, and the whole point is that it gets processed by the xml2rfc utility. that's the pipeline bestie, no cap.

now, the important part: if no file is specified, STDIN will be used 🌈. so if you're typing input directly, you can send an EOF by pressing ^D. yes, ^D, that's your little escape hatch, go off 🎀

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🎀 EXAMPLE 🎀

kramdown-rfc mydraft.mkd > mydraft.xml
xml2rfc mydraft.xml

look at that. two lines. first one turns your mydraft.mkd into mydraft.xml, second one feeds it to xml2rfc. chef's kiss, we love a clean workflow 💖

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

kramdown-rfc is written by Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> 💜

This manual page was written by Cédric Boutillier <boutil@debian.org> for the Debian project 🌸

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• kramdown(1)
• xml2rfc(1)

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bestie reminder: the manual name is General Commands Manual, and this whole thing is 2022, April energy. that's the sign-off 💅✨ slay, go write some RFCs 🫶