On Thu, 28 Oct 2021 21:02:04 GMT, Hannes Wallnöfer <hann...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> Please review a change to add a nested `<code>` element for snippet tags as 
> well as HTML attributes for the snippet's `id` and `lang` attributes. The 
> change is quite simple, I did however encounter some gotchas. Below is a 
> short list of notes to explain some aspects of the change.
> 
>  - Both `id` and `lang` are only meaningful if they have non-empty values, so 
> defining them with empty or missing values will cause the respective HTML 
> attributes to be not defined.
>  - I decided to put the logic for extracting the `id` and `lang` attributes 
> into the already quite long `SnippetTaglet.getInlineTagOutput` method as this 
> is where the required preparation and infrastructure are located. Both values 
> are then passed as additional arguments to `TagletWriter.snippetTagOutput` 
> which is not great. I think it's ok for now, but maybe if we need to pass 
> more values along that way we should reconsider this design.
>  - I'm not sure whether we should assume `lang=java` for internal snippets. 
> This change currently does not, it only derives implicit `lang` attributes 
> for external snippets based on the extension of the snippet source file.
>  - In `SnippetTaglet.languageFromFilename()` I tried to cover what I reckoned 
> would be the most useful languages for javadoc users, including a few major 
> JVM languages. I'm sure I forgot some, but I hope I got at least those file 
> extensions right.
>  - We previously added a newline character to the snippet's `<pre>` element. 
> I think this was done in order to make sure the element is rendered even if 
> the snippet content is empty. This was fine with just the `<pre>` element, 
> but with a nested `<code>` element that newline is visible in the browser. I 
> therefore replaced the newline with `HtmlTree.EMPTY`. 
>  - For the test, I was able to convert the existing `testIdAndLangAttributes` 
> test to cover explicit `id` and `lang` attributes. I added a new test called 
> `testExternalImplicitAttributes` to test derived `lang` attributes.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 19075b3f
Author:    Hannes Wallnöfer <hann...@openjdk.org>
URL:       
https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/commit/19075b3f6b21f6d3b0624ef8e835b3cfc53228de
Stats:     274 lines in 4 files changed: 133 ins; 13 del; 128 mod

8275788: Create code element with suitable attributes for code snippets

Reviewed-by: prappo

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6165

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