Re: Failure in html output - Reference to nonexistent nodes

[Gavin Smith]

On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 04:09:14PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 03:13:27PM +0100, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> > Some time ago I discussed the problem that calling a reference
> > to a nonexistent node when generating .info files.
> > 
> > When outputting html, reference to nonexistent node also gives a
> > problem.  
> > 
> > @ref reference to nonexistent node `igc03--Sicl--CircAmRg'
> 
> That seems to be a good thing to me, this is an clearly an error.
> 
> > Problem is aggravated because the failure stops the 
> > generation of any files.   
> >  
> > When using texi2pdf, one gets in the output pdf document
> > 
> > <undefined> [igc03–Sicl–CircAmRg], page <undefined>,
> > 
> > This is much better than not generating any output.
> 
> My wild guess is that opinions are probably divided on that matter.
> 
> But there is a possibility with texi2any to generate input even in case
> of errors, with the option --force.  The option --error-limit may also be
> of use in that context.  There is also --no-warn that an be used to
> silence the warnings.

Another possibility is to put @novalidate in the document.