[webkit-dev] Grammer for html parsing

Darin Adler darin at apple.com
Mon Feb 9 15:11:54 PST 2009


On Feb 9, 2009, at 12:23 PM, Nilesh Patil wrote:

> 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 ?

This doesn’t answer your entire question, but I think it gets to the  
core of what you’re asking:

The code that figures out what kind of element to create based on the  
HTML tag is HTMLElementFactory::createHTMLElement in  
HTMLEventFactory.cpp. It’s called by HTMLParser::getNode.

     -- Darin



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