exp/template/html: Grammar rules for HTML comments and special tags.
Augments type context and adds grammatical rules to handle special HTML constructs:
<!-- comments -->
<script>raw text</script>
<textarea>no tags here</textarea>
This CL does not elide comment content. I recommend we do that but
have not done it in this CL.
I used a codesearch tool over a codebase in another template language.
Based on the below I think we should definitely recognize
<script>, <style>, <textarea>, and <title>
as each of these appears frequently enough that there are few
template using apps that do not use most of them.
Of the other special tags,
<xmp>, <noscript>
are used but infrequently, and
<noframe> and friend, <listing>
do not appear at all.
We could support <xmp> even though it is obsolete in HTML5
because we already have the machinery, but I suggest we do not
support noscript since it is a normal tag in some browser
configurations.
I suggest recognizing and eliding <!-- comments -->
(but not escaping text spans) as they are widely used to
embed comments in template source. Not eliding them increases
the size of content sent over the network, and risks leaking
code and project internal details.
The template language I tested elides them so there are
no instance of IE conditional compilation directives in the
codebase but that could be a source of confusion.
The codesearch does the equivalent of
$ find . -name \*.file-extension \
| perl -ne 'print "\L$1\n" while s@<([a-z][a-z0-9])@@i' \
| sort | uniq -c | sort
The 5 uses of <plaintext> seem to be in tricky code and can be ignored.
The 2 uses of <xmp> appear in the same tricky code and can be ignored.
I also ignored end tags to avoid biasing against unary
elements and threw out some nonsense names since since the
long tail is dominated by uses of < as a comparison operator
in the template languages expression language.
I have added asterisks next to abnormal elements.
26765 div
7432 span
7414 td
4233 a
3730 tr
3238 input
2102 br
1756 li
1755 img
1674 table
1388 p
1311 th
1064 option
992 b
891 label
714 script *
519 ul
446 tbody
412 button
381 form
377 h2
358 select
353 strong
318 h3
314 body
303 html
266 link
262 textarea *
261 head
258 meta
225 title *
189 h1
176 col
156 style *
151 hr
119 iframe
103 h4
101 pre
100 dt
98 thead
90 dd
83 map
80 i
69 object
66 ol
65 em
60 param
60 font
57 fieldset
51 string
51 field
51 center
44 bidi
37 kbd
35 legend
30 nobr
29 dl
28 var
26 small
21 cite
21 base
20 embed
19 colgroup
12 u
12 canvas
10 sup
10 rect
10 optgroup
10 noscript *
9 wbr
9 blockquote
8 tfoot
8 code
8 caption
8 abbr
7 msg
6 tt
6 text
6 h5
5 svg
5 plaintext *
5 article
4 shortquote
4 number
4 menu
4 ins
3 progress
3 header
3 content
3 bool
3 audio
3 attribute
3 acronym
2 xmp *
2 overwrite
2 objects
2 nobreak
2 metadata
2 description
2 datasource
2 category
2 action
R=nigeltao
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/
4964045