ietf-tools / ietf-tools/draftforge
Check that references have cite tags and vice versa
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Since Dec 22, 2025.
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Description
Each reference must be cited in the body of the text, and each citation must have a reference. Highlight any instances of hardcoded cite tags (in the text of the XML as [RFCNNNN] instead of <xref target="RFCNNNN"/>), note if there are any references that don't have a corresponding xref, and any xrefs that don't have a reference.
xml2rfc is good a catching these issues.
Functionality currently provided (very noisily) by the matchref script.
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