Re: [respec] Automatic conversion between WebIDL oldschool and contiguous

Clever!

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Dominique Hazael-Massieux <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As alluded before [1], the modern and correct way of writing WebIDL with
> respec is to use the so-called "contiguous" mode rather than the
> "oldschool" one.
>
> As transitioning between the two can require quite a bit of work with
> specs with lots of WebIDL, I've built [2] a respec profile that can help
> (attached).
>
> To use it:
> * replace the link to the respec script by a link to that special profile
> * save the generated document as the new source for your respec
> * re-replace the respec link with the normal respec profile
> * fix anchors and auto-links as needed
>
> I have tested this only with one spec so far, and I'm not volunteering to
> maintain and publish that profile much beyond the usage I'll have for it in
> the upcoming few weeks; but I thought I would mention it in case others are
> facing the same conversion needs.
>
> Dom
>
> 1. https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/spec-prod/2015JulSep/0032.html
> 2. https://github.com/dontcallmedom/respec/commits/oldschool2contiguous
>



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