TokenIgnores for AsciiDoc Cross References

[bella018]

Hello,

I'd like to ignore the cross reference anchors, but adding the following to my TokenIgnores doesn't have the desired effect:
(<<[^\s]+?>>).

The Token Ignore for xref: appears to be working correctly:
(xref:.*?\[)

Or is this considered bad practice?

Any advice welcome, thanks!

[jdkato]

Can you share an example of an AsciiDoc file?

[bella018]

Yes, sorry, should have included that in the original post.

When putting together the example, I've observed that the issue only occurs when the anchor and cross reference are split across different files.

If the anchor is defined in the same file as the reference, then vale doesn't report an error. E.g.

= Chapter

See <<ecc_memsys_error_path>> for an exemplification of the ECC logic within the pipelines.

[#ecc_memsys_error_path]
== Subchapter

However, if the anchor and the reference are defined across two different files, vale reports an error. E.g.

= Chapter

See <<ecc_memsys_error_path>> for an exemplification of the ECC logic within the pipelines.

[#ecc_memsys_error_path]
== Subchapter ECC

[jdkato]

In the first case, the HTML produced is:

<p>See <a href="#ecc_memsys_error_path">Subchapter</a> for an exemplification of the ECC logic within the pipelines.</p>

Where "Subchapter" is the text linted.

In the second case, it's:

<p>See <a href="#ecc_memsys_error_path">[ecc_memsys_error_path]</a> for an exemplification of the ECC logic within the pipelines.</p>

Where "[ecc_memsys_error_path]" is the text linted.

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My suggestion would be to explicitly provide a label that is suitable for linting:

= Chapter

See <<ecc_memsys_error_path,My Label>> for an exemplification of the ECC logic within the pipelines.

[bella018]

Makes sense. Thanks for your help!