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• New XSD is in place (10 Sept 2019): https://www.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc-index.xsd
• rfc-index.txt, .html, .xml (and similar files) are slightly different from before, this is due to:
  • added new publication formats and source format.
  • removed file sizes. (Byte count is no longer included as metadata for each RFC.)
• There is only one page count per RFC, even if it is available in multiple file formats.
  • As a result, in rfc-index.xml, page-count has been “pulled up” a level.
• For page count, source of data will change.
  • For pre-v3 docs, it is the page count of the .txt file (except for a handful of old RFCs where there is no .txt file).
  • For v3 docs, it will be the page count of the PDF file.

• Externally, PDFs are listed simply as “PDF” (whether v3 or otherwise).
• Internally, the db holds “v3PDF” to mean v3 output; “PDF” is used for pre-v3.
• As before, .txt.pdf files are not listed in index files.

• Externally, .txt format (whether pre-v3 or not) is listed as “TEXT”.
  Exception: rfc-index.xml: will display “ASCII” (for pre-v3) and “TEXT” (afterwards). Rationale: other index files were already using the “TEXT” instead of “ASCII”, so they weren't changed to start differentiating.
• Internally, the db holds “TEXT” to mean v3 output; “ASCII” is used for pre-v3.

• One JSON file per RFC was made available 11 September 2019.
• Each file contains data similar to an entry in rfc-index.xml.
• Sample file: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5234.json

Example: RFC4254

-- OLD
    <format>
    <file-format>ASCII</file-format>
        <char-count>50338</char-count>
        <page-count>24</page-count>
    </format>
    <format>
    <file-format>HTML</file-format>
    </format>

-- NEW

    <format>
        <file-format>ASCII</file-format>
        <file-format>HTML</file-format>
    </format>
    <page-count>24</page-count>

For comparison, the JSON record includes (among other data):

"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"24"

Example: RFC8888 (v3 era)

-- NEW

    <format>
        <file-format>TEXT</file-format>
        <file-format>HTML</file-format>
        <file-format>PDF</file-format>
        <file-format>XML</file-format>
    </format>
    <page-count>48</page-count>

For comparison, the JSON record would include (among other data):

"format":["TEXT","HTML","PDF","XML"],"page_count":"48"