Tools

The IETF maintains a number of tools for use in developing and validating IETF documents, including:

• Producing RFCs using XML (xml2rfc)
• Validation Tools
• HTML RFCs and I-Ds
• Message Validator
• Chris Newman's ABNF Validator

Freely available utilities you can use to check the XML used in your specifications:

• The IBM XML Schema Quality Checker: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/xmlsqc
• The Xerces-Java parser: http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/index.html