[whatwg] making dfn.js work for multipage spec [was: Spec references in multipage]

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Sat Aug 6 09:45:34 PDT 2011


On Sat, 6 Aug 2011, Michael[tm] Smith wrote:
> 
> It works -- and would also work for the full spec -- but I suspect there 
> probably has to be a better way to implement it than the way I did. 
> Because the way I did it very slow; it adds several minutes to the 
> anolis part of the document-building process. On the host I use for 
> building the author view of the spec, I think it causes the build to 
> take 6 minutes or so to run (compared to only a minute or two without 
> it).

If Anolis is idempotent and can be run just again as part of the multipage 
generation, we could just have Philip and Anne add it to their splitters, 
if they're interested.

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