how to regenerate w3c idl files ?

[jeromeetienne]

(it isnt directly related but webidl2.js but as you are quite involved with w3c, i guessed i could ask :) )

i would like to regenerate w3c idl files and parse them with webidl2.js. im searching the web and can't find the doc. maybe you got answers or simply pointers. both would be welcomed

question: where to find w3c idls ?

• i failed to find a central place with the idl defined, or a doc explaining how to regenerate them
• i got piece here and there but no central place
  • e.g. http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/idl-definitions.html

question how to preprocess them to get actual idl ?

• they contains cpp preprocessor directive apparently
• how to preprocess them to get actual pure idl ?

[darobin]

There is no centrally collected set of W3C IDLs. The DOM Level 2 ones you point to are very out of date (also: they are OMG IDL, not WebIDL, and as you note they rely preprocessing), I recommend against using them.

You can get a list of all specs at w3.org/TR/. I guess those listed under the "Javascript APIs" category are the ones of interest. You can search for .idl:not(.extract) to normally get all WebIDL sections; extracting their text should give you all you need.

We have plans to produce this in a more automated and easy to grab way, but at this point that hasn't been done.

[jeromeetienne]

Thanks!

For future reference, here is the code i used in the page

for(var i = 0, arr = document.querySelectorAll('.idl:not(.extract)');i < arr.length; i++){
      console.log(arr[i].innerText);
}