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sphinx-xml2rfc

A sphinx extension providing features to document work-in-progress Internet-Drafts using git history.

Overview

The extension contains two primary components:

Versioned document generation

Hooks sphinx-build initialisation, and searches the local git repository for refs, and uses xml2rfc to build each version of the named drafts.

These are written to the sphinx source directory tree for use during the build phase.

sphinx language domain

The xml2rfc domain provides directives for rendering Internet-Draft texts and for displaying changes between versions.

Documentation sources containing the appropriate directives can optionally be auto-generated, after the fashion of sphinx-apidoc

Installation

python -m pip install sphinx-xml2rfc

Usage

To use, add sphinx_xml2rfc to extensions in conf.py:

extensions = [
    ...,
    sphinx_xml2rfc,
    ...
]

The following configuration options are available:

• xml2rfc_drafts

  Iterable of draft names for which to auto-generate text versions from xml sources using xml2rfc.

  Each name should match the name of the XML source file (without the .xml extension) in the root of the repository tree.

  default: []

• xml2rfc_sources

  Iterable of file names required by xml2rfc to process the documents in xml2rfc_drafts.

  default: []

• xml2rfc_remotes

  Iterable of git remote names to consider when searching for branch refs.

  Local heads will be considered first, after which each remote will be searched in order. Only the first branch ref with a given name will be used.

  default: ["origin"]

• xml2rfc_autogen_docs

  Enable the automatic generation of sphinx source documents.

  default: True

• xml2rfc_autogen_branch_re

  Regex pattern for selection of branch names to generate document versions for.

  default: r"^main|master$"

• xml2rfc_autogen_tag_re

  Regex pattern for selection of tag names to generate document versions for.

  default: r"^.+$"

• xml2rfc_output

  Directory name in which to output files. Relative to sphinx confdir.

  default: "_xml2rfc"