Handling Long Lines in Content of Internet-Drafts and RFCs

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Publisher: IETF
Doc Type: Informational
Pages: 28
Abstract: This document defines two strategies for handling long lines in width-bounded text content. One strategy, called the "single backslash" strategy, is based on the historical use of a single backslash ('\') character to indicate where line-folding has occurred, with the continuation occurring with the first character that is not a space character (' ') on the next line. The second strategy, called the "double backslash" strategy, extends the first strategy by adding a second backslash character to identify where the continuation begins and is thereby able to handle cases not supported by the first strategy. Both strategies use a self-describing header enabling automated reconstitution of the original content.
Publication Date: 2020-06-01
Status Note: Informational
DOI: 10.17487/RFC8792
Link: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC8792
Author(s): Kent Watsen
Erik Auerswald
Adrian Farrel
Qin Wu

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IETF RFC 2119 [Active*]
IETF RFC 7991 [Active*]
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"xml2rfc", <https://pypi.org/project/xml2rfc/>. EXTERNAL
"GNU Bash Manual", <https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual>. EXTERNAL
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IETF RFC 7749 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 7950 [Active, Amended*]
IETF RFC 7994 [Active*]
IETF RFC 8340 [Active*]

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