specStatus

Type: string Default: "ED"

The publication status of the document. Controls the document title, status boilerplate, and which sections are shown.

Basic usage

var respecConfig = {
  specStatus: "ED",
};

var respecConfig = {
  specStatus: "WD",
  previousPublishDate: "2024-01-15",
  previousMaturity: "FPWD",
};

Valid values

W3C Recommendation Track

Value	Full name	Required with
"ED"	Editor's Draft	—
"FPWD"	First Public Working Draft	—
"WD"	Working Draft	previousPublishDate, previousMaturity
"CR"	Candidate Recommendation Snapshot	crEnd, implementationReportURI
"CRD"	Candidate Recommendation Draft	crEnd
"PR"	Proposed Recommendation	crEnd, prEnd
"REC"	Recommendation	—
"RSCND"	Rescinded Recommendation	—
"DISC"	Discontinued Draft	—

W3C Notes Track

Value	Full name
"DNOTE"	Group Note Draft
"NOTE"	Group Note
"STMT"	Statement

W3C Registry Track

Value	Full name
"DRY"	Registry Draft
"CRYD"	Candidate Registry Draft
"CRY"	Candidate Registry Snapshot
"RY"	Registry

Community & Business Groups

Value	Full name
"CG-DRAFT"	Draft Community Group Report
"CG-FINAL"	Final Community Group Report
"BG-DRAFT"	Draft Business Group Report
"BG-FINAL"	Final Business Group Report

Other

Value	Full name	Notes
"unofficial" or "UD"	Unofficial Draft	For personal or exploratory drafts. Licensed CC-BY v3.0 by default.
"base"	(no status)	Minimal output — no W3C boilerplate. Useful for plain documentation.
"LS"	Living Standard	For continuously-updated living standards.
"LD"	Living Document	Similar to Living Standard.
"Member-SUBM"	Member Submission	Requires submissionCommentNumber.
"MO"	Member-Only Document	For W3C member-restricted documents.
"finding"	TAG Finding	For published TAG findings.
"draft-finding"	Draft TAG Finding
"editor-draft-finding"	Draft TAG Finding (GitHub)	For TAG documents maintained on GitHub.

Notes

• "ED" is the default — it does not appear on W3C TR/; safe for active development
• Use noRecTrack if the document should not follow the Recommendation track
• For "unofficial", content is auto-licensed under CC-BY v3.0; use license to change this
• See W3C Standards and Draft document types for the normative definition of each document type