From 6a192a63815092858c2f6f577e02060255fae136 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hashim1999164 <64767361+Hashim1999164@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2026 23:27:25 +0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix: strip unused link reference definitions in legacy path

Remove the occurrence-count heuristic that left unused [id]: url
definitions in the HTML output for non-cmSpec flavors.

Fixes #1061
---
 .../cases/issues/1061.unused-link-definition-leaks.html    | 2 ++
 .../cases/issues/1061.unused-link-definition-leaks.md      | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 test/functional/makehtml/cases/issues/1061.unused-link-definition-leaks.html
 create mode 100644 test/functional/makehtml/cases/issues/1061.unused-link-definition-leaks.md

diff --git a/test/functional/makehtml/cases/issues/1061.unused-link-definition-leaks.html b/test/functional/makehtml/cases/issues/1061.unused-link-definition-leaks.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..29757f93
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/functional/makehtml/cases/issues/1061.unused-link-definition-leaks.html
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+<p>one</p>
+<p>two</p>
diff --git a/test/functional/makehtml/cases/issues/1061.unused-link-definition-leaks.md b/test/functional/makehtml/cases/issues/1061.unused-link-definition-leaks.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..41240e07
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/functional/makehtml/cases/issues/1061.unused-link-definition-leaks.md
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+[unused]: http://example.com/
+
+one
+
+[zqx]: /url
+
+two