Supporting the Entire HTML Spec with Macros

Using the tags text file

We’ve done great till now, but our goal is to create a first-class DSL. A single tag macro simply won’t cut it. Let’s elevate our sophistication by supporting all 117 valid HTML tags. We could write a hundred macros by hand, but let’s use the techniques we learned in the chapter Advanced Compile-Time Code Generation to save time and effort. As before, a quick internet search turned up a complete list of HTML tags. After a copy and paste into a flat text file, we end with a file of line-delimited tags.

Here’s a handful of lines from the file:

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