Support the Entire HTML Spec with Macros
We’re off to a great start, but our goal is to create a first-class DSL. A single tag macro simply won’t cut it. Let’s up our sophistication by supporting all 117 valid HTML tags. We could write a hundred macros by hand, but let’s use the techniques you learned in Chapter 3, Advanced Compile-Time Code Generation, to save time and effort.
As before, a quick Internet search turned up a complete list of HTML tags.[9] After a copy and paste into a flat text file, we end with a file of line-delimited tags. Here’s a handful of lines from the file:
| html/lib/tags.txt | |
| | form |
| | frame |
| | frameset |
| | h1 |
| | head |
| | header |
We’ll use this file to generate the entire HTML spec. Copy the file over to your own project and save it ...
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