I've got this simple go lang webserver that does nothing more but parsing some data into an external HTML file and serve that file to the webserver.
package main
import (
"html/template"
"net/http"
)
type Event struct {
Name string
}
func handler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
e := Event{ Name: "Melt! Festival" }
t, _ := template.ParseFiles("events.html")
t.Execute(w, e)
}
func main() {
http.HandleFunc("/", handler)
http.ListenAndServe(":1337", nil)
}
But whenever I try to parse the HTML file with the set it parses my html-page as text in stead of rendering the HTML in the browser
<!DOCTYPE>
<html>
<head>
<title>Event</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>
Event: {{.Name}}
</p>
</body>
</html>
When I leave the <!DOCTYPE> out of the HTML-file it renders it just fine.
Can anyone tell me why this is because I'm really curious? I spent two hours searching for the cause of my go code not working.
