Re: Various respec enhancements ...

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org> wrote:

> On 17/09/2014 21:36 , Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>
>> Yeah, SpecRef's cross-linking support is Anolis-inspired, where you
>> have to specify the id every time (and you have to uniquify IDs across
>> all documents, I think?).  It's a very poor data model, unfortunately.
>> Shepherd (maintain by Peter Linss) does all the parsing and
>> dfn-finding for Bikeshed, and is aware of Bikeshed's data model (me
>> and Peter evolved it together).  It's publicly available at
>> <http://api.csswg.org/shepherd/>.
>>
>
> Well, given that at this point no one relies on SpecRef's support for
> xrefs I don't think it would be a big issue to change how it works.


Agreed.

As mentioned previously. This is on my todo list for Q4. I'll ping you all
when I get there (unless of course, someone beats me to it, which would be
all kinds of awesome).

--tobie

Received on Monday, 22 September 2014 12:43:16 UTC