[webkit-dev] Grammer for html parsing

[Shariq Rizvi]

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Nilesh Patil <vniles at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Yeah.... But still have a doubt. Doesn't  it need to compare tags with
> what ever has come as response? i mean if some data comes then webkit
> must be identifying it in terms of HTML tags or other type of data. So
> is there no need of string comparison of actual HTML tags ?
>

It is the job of the tokenizer (HTMLTokenizer.cpp) to read the HTML "tags"
in the document and collect them into "tokens" (class Token). Once a Token
has been created, the tokenizer calls the parser (HTMLParser.cpp) to create
a DOM node and put it in the right place in the DOM tree.
Hence, the "string comparison" that you mention is going on inside the
tokenizer (during its reading of a tag to create a Token).




>
> THanks & Regards
> Niilesh
> On 2/9/09, Darin Adler <darin at apple.com> wrote:
> > On Feb 9, 2009, at 3:58 AM, Nilesh Patil wrote:
> >
> >> I need to know where does grammer for html Parser has been defined
> >> in webkit. Is it a string based comparison directly with tags or
> >> done any other way?
> >
> > The source files are HTMLTokenizer.cpp and HTMLParser.cpp. It doesn't
> > use a parser generator such as yacc or bison or a lexer generator such
> > as lex or flex, if that's what you're asking.
> >
> >      -- Darin
> >
> >
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