WG dependent Conformance templates

[dirkschulze]

The conformance section of the CSS WG is significant longer than the predefined one.

Is it for example possible to upload the template for the CSS WG, which is just chosen when one of the WG strings in the meta data section is CSS Working Group or SVG Working Group for instance?

[darobin]

That's not a feature that's currently supported, and while I'm sympathetic with the idea I also hesitate to add too much stuff that's WG-specific. I'm also not sure that I like the idea of supporting WGs in adding their own boilerplate on top of the already-excessive amount that the W3C imposes (e.g. a Note pointed to by all documents would be better).

One option that could work assuming you always edit using a local web server that's pointing to the root of a directory shared by multiple specs from the same group is to use data-include.

Say for instance you're in the Cryptozoology WG and every conformance section starts with a lot of boilerplate, you could have:

/cryptozoology/conformance-template.html
/cryptozoology/your-spec/index.html
/cryptozoology/some-other-spec/index.html

And then in those spec documents, use:

<div data-include="../conformance-template.html"></div>

To include the boilerplate at that point.