On 13 February 2016 at 15:49, Dan Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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).
I wasn't around back then, but remember Asciidoc Python was initially implemented to convert to docbook, and all those toolchains do TOCs themselves, so the stream processing implementation is fine, and it allows very large documents to be processed (back in the time of 32 bit machines with 0.5 or 1 Gb memory). Its just that it imposes limitations on things that need the whole document to be seen before they can be done, like toc. > > -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. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "asciidoc" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > > -- > Dan Allen | @mojavelinux | http://google.com/profiles/dan.j.allen > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "asciidoc" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
