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Follow-up to #22907. Every disagreement the new column reported in the corpora came from a gap in the comparison, not from a webpack bug, so this closes those gaps. A "no" in the column now points at something real.

  • css-tree: inside a style rule it gives up once declarations and nested rules mix, and it reads a nested at-rule's block as rules only. Both are re-read, declarations first.
  • IE hacks: a declaration whose name doesn't start with an identifier (*zoom) is dropped, as the spec drops it. postcss's _prop hack is read back as written.
  • webpack (CSS): block contents are compared in source order. webpack's walk visits declarations before nested rules by design (consumeABlocksContents), and the printer keeps source order.
  • parse5: a <?… cut off at the end of the input is dropped where webpack's processing-instruction rules drop it (_scanProcessingInstruction).
  • Cells: when both sides are longer than the cut, both are shown from just before the first differing character. This exposed one real disagreement: htmlparser2 (xmlMode) keeps a newline inside an attribute value, which XML attribute-value normalization turns into a space.
before after
CSS corpus (77): webpack / postcss disagree 4 / 5 0 / 0
test/**/*.css (1034): webpack disagrees 32 12 (invalid-CSS recovery cases where css-tree's recovery differs from the spec's)
test/**/*.html (406): webpack disagrees 4 3 (parse5 has no declarative shadow root or customizable <select>)

What kind of change does this PR introduce?

build

Did you add tests for your changes?

Yes: test/unitCases/tooling/compare-{css,html,harness}.unittest.js. The new HTML cases fail against main's reader.

Does this PR introduce a breaking change?

No.

If relevant, what needs to be documented once your changes are merged or what have you already documented?

Updated in tooling/COMPARE_TOOLS.md.

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  • Improvements
    • CSS and HTML comparison tools handle additional edge cases, including nested CSS rules, unusual declarations, and incomplete processing instructions.
    • Difference reports show clearer context around mismatches in long values.
  • Documentation
    • Updated comparison guidance to clarify known parser differences and how they are handled.
  • Tests
    • Expanded coverage for CSS and HTML parsing, source-order comparisons, and mismatch reporting.

…ment column

Re-read what css-tree gives up on inside a style rule, drop declarations the
spec drops, compare webpack's CSS blocks in source order, mirror webpack's
processing instruction rules in parse5's tree, and cut both sides of a cell
at the first character they differ at.
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The parser-agreement tooling now reparses selected CSS fragments, filters declaration names, and orders webpack CSS events by source position. It also adjusts parse5 handling of selected incomplete processing instructions and shows nearby context for long tree differences.

Changes: Parser comparison tooling

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CSS fragment and declaration comparison
tooling/compare-css-tools.js, test/unitCases/tooling/compare-css.unittest.js, tooling/COMPARE_TOOLS.md
The CSS readers filter declaration names and handle selected raw CSS fragments through reparsing. PostCSS declaration names include leading raw text. Tests cover nested content, unparsed fragments, and unusual property names. The documentation describes these adjustments and remaining parser differences.
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The webpack CSS reader stores rule, at-rule, and declaration events in held nodes, then emits them in source order.
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tooling/compare-html-tools.js, test/unitCases/tooling/compare-html.unittest.js
The parse5 comparison reader uses source locations and omits selected trailing incomplete processing-instruction comments. Tests cover incomplete targets and instructions, as well as a closed comment.
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tooling/compare-tools-harness.js, test/unitCases/tooling/compare-harness.unittest.js
The formatter compares full event descriptions before shortening the displayed context. The test covers long values that differ near the end.

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