HTML Parsing in web browsers?

Question

Hi,
I’m a beginner and I’m wandering for this question. Right now I’m concerned with webkit (a web browser). Here, my problem is, what I want to know, how the web browser is handling all the HTML data coming from any network. E.g. how is it getting the data and parsing that? Very specifically, I want to know about HTML Parser! If you have the code base of webkit, you can find a part that’s webcore. In webcore, there is a HTML module. As I think, this is the part of HTML parser. But it seems very tough for me to understand that code without knowing the basics. So please help me.

Answer 1

You would need some basic understanding on formal language definitions and compilers. Without this knowledge looking at the parser code for 1000 years is futile.

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