Exactly. What I meant was that I never understood why AsciiDoc Python was
implemented that way. It imposes many constraints, such as not being able
to produce a TOC or validate cross references. (Of course, that's knowledge
gained in hindsight, so I don't want to be overly critical of the choices
made at the time).

-Dan

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 9:54 PM, Keith Packard <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>
> On Friday, February 12, 2016 at 8:43:58 PM UTC-8, Dan Allen wrote:
>>
>> I've never understood why the TOC was done in JavaScript, which is why I
>> reified it in Asciidoctor.
>>
>
> It's pretty obvious when you look at the code -- the xhtml11 backend for
> asciidoc operates almost as a stream processor. The only state it keeps
> while processing the source file is a stack of section closing elements.
>
> Adding toc generation required saving the full output and inserting the
> TOC in a post-processing step.
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