Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] docs: automarkup.py: Fix invalid HTML link output and broken URI fragments

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Thu Jan 06 2022 - 17:25:00 EST


James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Since commit d18b01789ae5 ("docs: Add automatic cross-reference for
> documentation pages"), references that were already explicitly defined
> with "ref:" and referred to other pages with a path have been doubled.
> This is reported as the following error by Firefox:
[...]
> The fix is to check that nodes in the document to be modified are not
> already references. A reference is counted as any text that is a
> descendant of a reference type node. Only plain text should be converted
> to new references, otherwise the doubling occurs.

This seems like a good fix. Applied, thanks.

jon