tooling: HTML & ecmarkup versions of the spec

Allen Wirfs-Brock allen at wirfs-brock.com
Tue Aug 11 18:38:35 UTC 2015


On Aug 11, 2015, at 10:26 AM, Michael Dyck wrote:

> On 15-08-11 11:47 AM, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
>> 
>> On Aug 10, 2015, at 6:03 PM, Michael Dyck wrote:
>> 
>>> While converting the HTML spec into ecmarkup, I found roughly 100
>>> glitches (depending on what and how you count),
>> 
>> Have you checked them against http://ecma-international.org/ecma-262/6.0/
>> ? It would be useful to know how many I have already fixed and also
>> additional things I missed.
> 
> I just fetched what's currently at that URL, and it's identical to the
> version that I've been working with. It looks like I got that on June 29, so
> if you've fixed anything since then, I'm not seeing it for some reason.

No, that's still urrent.  I mis-read your original post.  I thought you had said that your were working against a HTML version you had generated using es-spec-html

> 
> 
>>> but I'm disinclined to report them [...]
>> 
>> We can make formatting corrections to
>> http://ecma-international.org/ecma-262/6.0/ if there are significant
>> deviations from the PDF.
> 
> Ah, okay. In that case, I can see the use in reporting the glitches.
> 
>> It isn't necessary to submit 100 bugzilla tickets.  Any reason format of
>> a list that can be checked against the document would be useful.  If you
>> want you can just send it to me and Brian.
> 
> Right now, it's a sequence of pattern/replacement tweaks, with some
> comments, so it'd take a bit of work to get it into a reasonable format.

Anything that that leads to an approximate problem area would be helpful.

Allen


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