Template documentationThis template is a "subroutine" of {{Cite IETF}} used for conditionally creating links for different types of documents.
This "subroutine" is designed for {{Cite IETF}} and makes assumptions that may not be valid elsewhere.
Background
It uses the following algorithm:
- If the
|Url=parameter is given the template will simply display that value along with an optional anchor generated from|Anchor=appended. - If the
|Url=parameter is not given, if any of|Rfc=,|Std=,|Bcp=,|Fyi=,|Draft=,|Ien=, or|Rtr=parameters are given, and the|Autolink=parameter evaluates to anything other thannothen the template will generate a url using one of the document type identifiers given. - The template will give priority to the first of the parameters:
|Rfc=,|Std=,|Bcp=,|Fyi=,|Draft=,|Ien=, or|Rtr=in this order and create a link using the first matching parameter. - If the
|Anchor=parameter is given, it will be appended to the generated url.
Use
It is invoked as:
- {{Cite IETF/makelink
- | Url = <value of
|url=or|archiveurl=parameters> - | Anchor = <section or page anchor generated from the value of the
|section=or|page=parameters> - | Autolink = <value of
|autolink=parameter> - | Rfc = <value of
|rfc=parameter> - | Std = <value of
|std=parameter> - | Bcp = <value of
|bcp=parameter> - | Fyi = <value of
|fyi=parameter> - | Draft = <value of
|draft=parameter> - | Ien = <value of
|ien=parameter> - | Rtr = <value of
|rtr=parameter>
- | Url = <value of
- }}
Examples
{{Cite IETF/makelink |Fyi=17 |Anchor=#page-5}}{{Cite IETF/makelink |Url=https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2119 |Anchor=#section-1}}{{Cite IETF/makelink |Rfc=1122 |Std=3}}{{Cite IETF/makelink |Rfc=822 |Std=11 |Anchor=#section-4}}{{Cite IETF/makelink |Rfc=854 |Std=8}}