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HTML API: Report real and virtual nodes in the HTML Processor.
HTML is a kind of short-hand for a DOM structure. This means that there are many cases in HTML where an element's opening tag or closing tag is missing (or both). This is because many of the parsing rules imply creating elements in the DOM which may not exist in the text of the HTML. The HTML Processor, being the higher-level counterpart to the Tag Processor, is already aware of these nodes, but since it's inception has not paused on them when scanning through a document. Instead, these are visible when pausing on a child of such an element, but otherwise not seen. In this patch the HTML Processor starts exposing those implicitly-created nodes, including opening tags, and closing tags, that aren't foudn in the text content of the HTML input document. Previously, the sequence of matched tokens when scanning with `WP_HTML_Processor::next_token()` would depend on how the HTML document was written, but with this patch, all semantically equal HTML documents will parse and scan in the same exact manner, presenting an idealized or "perfect" view of the document the same way as would occur when traversing a DOM in a browser. Developed in WordPress/wordpress-develop#6348 Discussed in https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/61348 Props audrasjb, dmsnell, gziolo, jonsurrell. Fixes #61348. Built from https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@58304 git-svn-id: https://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@57761 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd
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