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x/tools/cmd/godoc: strange HTML whitespace and indentations in source generated #13944

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johanfo opened this issue Jan 13, 2016 · 2 comments
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johanfo commented Jan 13, 2016

Take a look at the HTML source of https://golang.org/pkg/fmt/
There are quite some whitespace and strange indentation there, that probably is quite easy to trim.

@johanfo johanfo changed the title Plenty of HTML whitepace in godoc Plenty of HTML whitepace in cmd/godoc Jan 13, 2016
@johanfo johanfo changed the title Plenty of HTML whitepace in cmd/godoc cmd/godoc: Strange HTML whitespace and indentations in source generated Jan 13, 2016
@ianlancetaylor ianlancetaylor changed the title cmd/godoc: Strange HTML whitespace and indentations in source generated cmd/godoc: strange HTML whitespace and indentations in source generated Jan 13, 2016
@ianlancetaylor ianlancetaylor added this to the Unplanned milestone Jan 13, 2016
@minux minux changed the title cmd/godoc: strange HTML whitespace and indentations in source generated x/tools/cmd/godoc: strange HTML whitespace and indentations in source generated Jan 14, 2016
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I took a look into this. This has to do with the "text/template" package. Whitespaces in the source code translate to actual whitespace in the html file. Even assignment statements like {{$name := printf "%s_%s" $tname .Name}} create a whitespace in the generated html. It can be somewhat mitigated by using "-" as mentioned here https://golang.org/pkg/text/template/#hdr-Text_and_spaces. But it does not go away completely. And moreover, littering the codebase with "-" does not look good.

I am not fully sure, but I think using the "html/template" package should help in mitigating this naturally.

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Thanks for the report.

As @agnivade said, the underlying issue here is with the template/* packages, which translates source code whitespace to actual whitespace.

I believe the right path forward would be to propose a change to the template package semantics if you’d like this to change (golang.org/s/proposal) since as of now, this is not a bug, but working as intended.

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