Re: WebIDL reference squestion

Awesome, thanks!

On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 11:29 AM Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> > On Sep 16, 2019, at 10:13 AM, Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com> wrote:
> >
> > We have a (old) spec which is producing ReSpec errors of the form:
> >
> >       • Couldn't match "DOMString" to anything in the document or in any
> other document cited in this specification: webidl. See how to cite to
> resolve the error at: 1, 2, 3.
> >
> > The spec has an associated Javascript with a postprocessing script which
> runs through all the <a> elements looking for a handful of specific strings
> (including DOMString) and patching them up to have the correct href /
> attributes. The final HTML output is good a s result.
>
> ReSpec handles this for you.
>
> > I am wondering is Respec support for webidl references has improved and
> Respec is trying to manage these links itself, failing (producing the above
> errors) and our old postprocessor is then doing the right thing.
>
> Yes, we added support for linking IDL types.
>
> > I wonder what we need to do to have Respec's support for WebIDL
> references work ? Right now the source HTML just contains thinks like
> <a>DOMString</a>.
>
> Sent you a PR :) https://github.com/w3c/encrypted-media/pull/454
>
> > WebIDL is getting included in our references, somehow. Perhaps because
> we refer to [[WEDIDL]] here and there.
>
> Yes, as the spec relies on things defined in WebIDL (e.g., DOMString).
>
> > The spec is here: https://github.com/w3c/encrypted-media
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > ...Mark
>
>