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xref

The xref option allows you to configure automatic external reference linking (xref). A detailed explanation on how to use xref in specifications is given here. This page describes the various configurations available.

xref can be configured as:

var respecConfig = {
  // See all config options below!
  xref: "web-platform", 
};

And then simply write the terms you want to link to:

<p>
  [=Queue a task=] to [=fire an event=] named "yay"
  at the {{Window}} object.
<p>

And ReSpec will know what to do. If ReSpec can't find a term, it will show an error. If you are unsure if a term is exported, head over to https://respec.org/xref/ to see if it's exported.

If a term is not exported, ask the Editors of that spec to export the term by using the "export" CSS class.

xref configuration options

The following configurations are available:

  • Boolean value. Setting xref: true simply enables the xref feature.
  • Array of specification short-names. This option enables xref, but also adds the specification short-names in the array to the data-cite attribute of the document's <body>. ReSpec then uses these specifications for disambiguation.
  • Profile name (string). Specification Profiles are described below.
  • Object with the optional properties url, specs and profile.
    1. url is used to link to a custom references API.
    2. specs is used to specify an array of specification short-names. This array is added to the data-cite attribute of the document's <body> and used for disambiguation.
    3. profile is used to specify profile.

Note that when using the object configuration, if both profile and specs properties are specified, then the specification short-names in specs combined with the ones in the profile used, are used for disambiguation.

xref profiles

Profiles are pre-defined lists of specifications. Using a profile means adding all of its specification short-names to the data-cite attribute of the document's <body>.

Following profiles are currently available:

web-platform
Specifications included: "HTML", "INFRA", "URL", "WEBIDL", "DOM", "FETCH"
var respecConfig = {
  xref: true,
};
var respecConfig = {
  xref: "web-platform",
};
var respecConfig = {
  xref: ["spec1", "spec2"],
};

Using the specs spec1 and spec2 along with specs in the web-platform profile to look for references.

var respecConfig = {
  xref: {
    specs: ["spec1", "spec2"],
    profile: "web-platform",
  },
};

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