ch5ex7

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= Exercise 5.7
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Develop `startElement` and `endElement` into a general HTML pretty-printer.
Print comment nodes, `text` nodes, and attributes of each element (`<a href='...'>`).
Use short forms like `<img/>` instead of `<img></img>` when an element has no children.
Write a test to ensure the output can be parsed successfully. (See Chapter 11.)

== Test

We test the implementation of `PrettyPrint`,
which reads from `input`, writes to `output`,
and performs the task in our exercise.

The implementation is a little flaky:

. it uses global variables to keep track of state.

. `startElement` prints the start tag of an HTML element
by relying on being called the first time an element is encountered,
before all child elements are visited.

. `endElement` prints the end tag of the element
by relying on being called after all child nodes are visited.

. indenting the output requires a global `depth`,
incremented by `startElement` and decremented by `endElement`.

=== The image element

The image element uses the tag `<img>` without an end tag and without the `/` character at the end.

We handle that case which corrects the exercise requirement.

=== Parsing the output

The `html.Parse` function does not seem to return an error
when the html is malformed.

We use the `outline` function from the book
to build an outline of the document
and ensure that the output is correctly parsed.

Documentation

Index

• func PrettyPrint()

Functions

func PrettyPrint

func PrettyPrint()