Re: ReSpec: Performing some actions before saving a snapshot

I actually did add such an event.  It is in pull request #335.

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 5:42 AM, Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org> wrote:

> On 20/08/2014 19:31 , Shane McCarron wrote:
>
>> In the PFWG editor's meeting today, one editor noted that in some
>> situations (with some dynamic documents) it would be nice to ensure that
>> any dynamic aspects of the document are set to their default state
>> before saving the snapshot.  I thought I remembered there was a way to
>> basically register a ReSpec event handler for the save event so that you
>> could do this sort of processing.  Is there a way to do that, or did I
>> dream it?
>>
>
> There is currently no event for save. There are two features that can help
> you, though I am unsure if they're enough for your needs:
>
>   • Anything with a class of removeOnSave gets removed on save.
>
>   • When the processing is finished, an end-all event is dispatched.
>
> The former would work for instance if you have some scripts that are
> dynamically inserting elements. You could have them label their elements
> with that class.
>
> The latter would work only if said scripts run before ReSpec is done and
> don't do anything afterwards.
>
> It would be fairly easy to add a save event that ui/save-html.js could
> dispatch.
>
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