Add more syntax for declarative DOM

Author: tbondwilkinson

proposals/DOM-Parts-Declarative-Template.md

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+# DOM Parts Declarative API
+
+This proposal covers the declarative API for creating a DOM part within a
+`<template>` element and main document HTML.
+
+## Proposal
+
+Double curly braces `{{}}` provide markers for DOM parts.
+
+In the most basic level, this proposal can produce the three DOM parts:
+`NodePart`, `AttributePart`, `ChildNodePart`.
+
+### Basic Examples
+
+Suppose we had the following template in some HTML extension template languages
+where `{name}` and `{email}` indicated locations of dynamic data insertion:
+
+```html
+<section>
+  <h1 id="name">{name}</h1>
+  Email: <a id="link" href="mailto:{email}">{email}</a>
+</section>
+```
+
+And the application has produced an HTML `<template>` with the following
+content:
+
+```html
+<template>
+  <section>
+    <h1 id="name">{{}}</h1>
+    Email: <a id="link" href="{{}}">{{}}</a>
+  </section>
+</template>
+```
+
+This will create a `ChildNodePart` attached to `<h1>` with no content, an
+`AttributePart` connected to `href`, and a `ChildNodePart` connected to `<a>`
+with no content.
+
+A framework could fetch these parts use either a
+[`DocumentPart`](./DOM-Parts-Imperative.md#option-2-documentpartgroup) on the
+`DocumentFragment` produced by the template.
+
+## Enablement in main `document`
+
+For the main document, a new `parseparts` attribute is introduced that indicates
+to the parser it should parse DOM part tags as DOM parts.
+
+```html
+<div parseparts></div>
+```
+
+Even for `innerHTML` use cases, only DOM nodes that are wrapped DOM with the
+`parseparts` attribute will use declarative parts.
+
+## Node parts
+
+For node parts, a `{{}}` tag could be provided as an attribute.
+
+```html
+<template>
+  <section {{}}></section>
+</template>
+```
+
+Would create a `NodePart` for `<section>`.
+
+## Partial attributes
+
+Allowing `{{}}` inside an attribute works the same as a
+[partial attribute update](./DOM-Parts-Imperative.md#partial-attribute-updates),
+in that it will create an `AttributePart` for the entire attribute, but it will
+have multi-valued `value` property.
+
+```html
+<template>
+  <section>
+    <h1 id="name">{{}}</h1>
+    Email: <a id="link" href="mailto:{{}}">{{}}</a>
+  </section>
+</template>
+```
+
+The `AttributePart` for `href` would have `value` equal to `['mailto:', '']`.
+Empty string values are provided for any markers without default content.
+
+## Default Values
+
+To provide default values for any part, a part can be split into a start `{{#}}`
+and finish `{{/}}` indicators.
+
+```html
+<template>
+  <section>
+    <h1 id="name">{{#}}Ryosuke Niwa{{/}}</h1>
+    Email:
+    <a id="link" href="mailto:{{#}}[email protected]{{/}}">
+      {{#}}[email protected]{{/}}
+    </a>
+  </section>
+</template>
+```
+
+## Names and Metadata
+
+Templating systems may need to serialize data about the nodes they are marking
+into the processing instructions. Or at the very least parts could be named so
+that they are easier to fetch.
+
+```html
+<div>{{email data="foo"}}</div>
+```
+
+This could be exposed on the imperative API to be consumed in JavaScript by
+application logic.
+
+## Choice of marker
+
+The `{{}}` and `{{#}}{{/}}` are reasonable DOM part markers, but it could be
+something else, or it could even be something that is declared as the
+placeholder.
+
+## Compatability
+
+It may be challenging to implement `<template>` parsing of `{{}}` for
+compatability reasons, so there may need to be restrictions such as only
+allowing this template syntax in a new API like `createTemplateWithParts()`.