> Please review an enhancement to make `DocCommentParser` normalize whitespace
> inside `<pre>` elements. The normalization is conceptually simple and and
> intended to be minimally invasive. Before parsing, `DocCommentParser` checks
> whether the text is a traditional doc comment and whether every line starts
> with a space character, which is commonly the case in traditional doc
> comments. If so, a single leading space is removed in block content (top
> level text and `{@code}`/`{@literal}` tags) when parsing within HTML `<pre>`
> tags.
>
> This fixes the incidental one-space indentation in the vast majority of JDK
> code samples using `<pre>` alone or in combination with `<code>` or
> `{@code}`. In fact, I only found one code sample in JDK code that isn't
> solved by this change, for which I included a fix in this PR (it's in
> `String.startsWith(String, int)`, where I replaced the 10 char indentation
> and trailing line with a `<blockquote>`).
>
> The many added `boolean inBlockContent` arguments pased around in
> `DocCommentParser` are to make sure the removal is not applied to multiline
> inline content, which is maybe a bit fussy considering there is not a lot of
> multiline inline content in `<pre>` tags and it usually would not mind about
> removal of a non-essential space character, but I wanted to keep the change
> minimal. There are few javadoc tests that had to be adapted, most of the
> testing is done in `test/langtools/tools/javac/doctree`.
>
> If the exact number of leading whitespace in `<pre>` tags is important to any
> javadoc user the old output can be restored by increasing the indentation by
> 1. There will be a release note for this of course.
>
> Unfortunately, there is another whitespace problem that can't be solved as
> easily, and that is a leading blank line caused by `<pre><code>\n` open tags.
> Browsers will [ignore a newline immediately following a `<pre>` tag][1], but
> not if there is a `<code>` tag in between. There are hundreds of occurrences
> of this in JDK code, including variants with space characters mixed in. The
> fix in javadoc proper would be too complex, so I decided to solve it with 3
> lines of JavaScript and a regex to reverse the order of `<code>\n` at the
> beginning of `<pre>` tags while removing any intermediary space. Script
> operation is indiscernible and it solves the problem.
>
> [1]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-pre-element:the-pre-element
Hannes Wallnöfer has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional
commit since the last revision:
Remove script for normalizing leading space in pre/code based on review
feedback
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Changes:
- all: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23868/files
- new: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23868/files/13638f80..d2128b3a
Webrevs:
- full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=23868&range=01
- incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=23868&range=00-01
Stats: 9 lines in 1 file changed: 0 ins; 9 del; 0 mod
Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23868.diff
Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/23868/head:pull/23868
PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23868
