It is common for authors to render (convert) their documents into a different format to make them easier to read, or to convert to another format for use in another tool.
There are three main ways to render RFCXML:
The following table shows the output formats supported by each tool.
| Tool | Supported output formats | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plaintext | HTML | HTMLised1 | EPUB | Nroff | DOCX | |||
| Author Tools | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
| xml2rfc | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes2 | No | |
| rfcxml.xslt | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
| xml2docx | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
Notes:
1 HTMLised is the plaintext version with an HTML wrapper and the references and table of contents turned into links.
2 nroff output is only supported for RFCXML v2 input files.
There are three main ways to render plaintext:
If you want to convert from a different source format then you should first convert to RFCXML or plaintext and follow the instructions above.