Provide source spans for tokens and DOM nodes

[kmcallister]

We can use something like libsyntax's Span and Spanned types to track positions in the input stream.

The tokenizer will remember its current position and the position at certain events, e.g. start tag, start attribute name. The tree builder will call a tree sink method (with an empty default) to annotate the DOM with span information.

Then we can write a command-line HTML validator with the same output UI as rustc :)

Note that eventually it will be possible for a single document's nodes to come from multiple text sources, e.g. with document.write.

[707090]

I am interested in this feature. What is the status of this? Is there some spanning information available or is this yet to be implemented?

My use case is that I am using html5ever in my proc macros to parse templates for a web framework and I would like to give errors with spans that point various parts of the original HTML

[jdm]

The tree builder sink is notified when the current line is updated via

html5ever/html5ever/src/tree_builder/mod.rs

Line 459 in 36ee935

self.sink.set_current_line(line_number);

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[noahbald]

Are there any plans to add this to rcdom/markup5ever?

[jbirnick]

I would also love to have support for Spans!

(The use case is editing certain parts of HTML documents, but most of the document should just stay exactly as it is. [Not parse and serialize again, just leave it untouched.] Then I could parse it with html5ever and just edit the relevant parts of file.)