Re: Thinking about cross references and ReSpec

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Tobie Langel <tobie.langel@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org> wrote:
>>
>
>>>> The hard part is getting the data. Hooking it into ReSpec oughtn't be
>>> difficult, unless I'm missing something.
>>
>>
>> Good. (I haven't thought about this at all, so I'll take your word for
>> it).
>>
>
> Yeah, I looked at the code for how we talk to SpecRef and it seems pretty
> straightforward to do a similar integration into the place where we are
> creating the list of cross references we need to look up.
>

Yeah, the lookup isn't the part I was worried about. It's the potential
syntax changes I'm more concerned with.

As an aside, I note that the SpecRef lookup (in ReSpec biblio.js) uses
> https GET.  I would change that to POST so that if there is a huge query we
> don't overflow URL length limits.  I will create an issue about it.
>

The effective limit is around 2000 chars[1] which should give us over a
hundred references. Let's think about fixing it when we cross it, no?

--tobie

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[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/a/417184