Why are we not using xref

[egekorkan]

After @aphillips comments at w3c/wot-thing-description#1437, more specifically the one about adding i18n-glossary to our xref, I thought "What is xref?". Then I have discovered a bunch of nice stuff from respec. Basically, xref allows documents written by respec (all WoT specs) to use each other's definitions. For this, we need to first export our definitions and then use in other specifications. Actually, we are not exporting even the TD since searching for it at https://respec.org/xref/ returns nothing, which is sad.

Is there a specific reason why we were not using it so far?

Some further documentation:

• https://respec.org/docs/#xref
• https://github.com/w3c/respec/wiki/xref

[k-toumura]

Looking at data export manual page in Respec wiki, it appears that only "browser specs" can use this feature.

• Your spec needs to be part of the browser specs to be indexed by Webref.

[egekorkan]

That is sad but I think we can at least use the exported definitions. Our specs do not even have xref field in the respecConfig

[egekorkan]

Closing. #1078 can continue the discussion