Respec: auto normalize references

[marcoscaceres]

today, if you have:

[[html]] and <a data-cite="HTML">

Or variance in the above, ReSpec warns:

"[HTML] is referenced in 2 ways: ('HTML', 'html'). This causes duplicate entries in the References section."

This is annoying for a number of reasons:

1. finding the culprit duplicate can be really hard in a large document. Specs can be thousands of lines long, and contain 50-100 citations.
2. Clearly, ReSpec knows the two are clashing - so it should just automatically fix the problem (just use the first encountered convention) and avoid adding duplicate entries to the bibliography.

[shikhar-scs]

Is this to be solved here or can it be a part of #1502 (module rewrite) ?

[himanish-star]

Same question

[marcoscaceres]

Can be solved whenever :) It should be fairly simple to fix.

[OrionStar25]

WebIDL issue! I'd love to work on this please @marcoscaceres

[marcoscaceres]

Starting point is:
https://github.com/w3c/respec/blob/develop/src/core/inlines.js#L67-L87

And where the warning happens:
https://github.com/w3c/respec/blob/develop/src/core/biblio.js#L182-L189

Somewhere in the above (you whomever works on it), normalization of the reference needs to happen.

[sidvishnoi]

Accidentally closed. Reopening