[whatwg] Spec references in multipage

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Thu Jul 28 17:36:26 PDT 2011


On Mon, 2 May 2011, Glenn Maynard wrote:
>
> This is probably a known issue, but the reference lists in the multipage 
> version of the specs only list references within the same section of the 
> spec.  Clicking "submitted" in [1] shows only two references.  Clicking 
> the same thing in the single-page version shows nine.  It would be very 
> helpful if external references were included.
> 
> [1] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/association-of-controls-and-forms.html#concept-form-submit

Yeah, this is the result of the dfn.js script only looking in the current 
document. If anyone is interested in fixing this, let me know and I can 
try to explain the problem space. (One solution is to change the spec 
splitter to output data that a new dfn.js can use.)

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