The "audible bell" character ('\a' U+0007) was treated as whitespace
while the "line feed" character ('\n' U+000a) was not.
'\a' is no longer considered whitespace.
'\n' is now considered whitespace.
We can now parse a little DOM like this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<div></div>
</body>
</html>
This is pretty slow work, but the incremental progress is satisfying!
This patch adds a new HTMLDocumentParser class. It keeps a tokenizer
object internally and feeds itself with one token at a time from it.
The names and idioms in this class are expressed as closely to the
actual HTML parsing spec as possible, to make development as easy
and bug free as possible. :^)
This is going to become pretty large, but it's pretty cool!
Instead of emitting data-bearing tokens immediately, do it lazily at
the next state change. This allows us to accumulate full bursts of
text in between tags instead of having one token per character. :^)
This makes it a compile error to omit the END_STATE. Also add some more
missing END_STATE's exposed by this (nice!)
Thanks to @predmond for suggesting the multi-pair trick! :^)
In order to actually view the web as it is, we're gonna need a proper
HTML parser. So let's build one!
This patch introduces the Web::HTMLTokenizer class, which currently
operates on a StringView input stream where it fetches (ASCII only atm)
codepoints and tokenizes acccording to the HTML spec tokenization algo.
The tokenizer state machine looks a bit weird but is written in a way
that tries to mimic the spec as closely as possible, in order to make
development easier and bugs less likely.
This initial version is far from finished, but it can parse a trivial
document with a DOCTYPE and open/close tags. :^)
