On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 11:00 PM, <peter2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, as title, I want to use the C/C++ to research the Gecko-dev html > parser. > Is it possible to build the Gecko-dev html parser? > > https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/tree/e9fa5c772abe4426c5e33ffe61c438f75f990aca/parser
What kind of research? That directory as a whole can't be used outside the context of Gecko. However, the core parts of both the HTML parser and the XML parser are available separately. The core of the HTML parser is written in Java (there's a translator program the translates it into C++ for use in Gecko) and can be run (as Java) in isolation of Gecko: https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/htmlparser/ In theory, it would be possible to edit the translator to support a non-Gecko translation target alongside the Gecko-coupled target, but that hasn't happened because first I had other stuff to do and then https://github.com/google/gumbo-parser showed up and ended the demand for a standalone C++ translation. The core of the XML parser is expat, which, of course, is available as an independent piece of software. -- Henri Sivonen hsivo...@hsivonen.fi https://hsivonen.fi/ _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
