Good grief.  Search the codebase.  Nowhere in it will you find those
"Velocity exception" messages.

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Brad Sisk <s...@prime-research.com> wrote:
> Thanks for answering, Nathan.
>
> I am sure you Think Velocity supports HTML5 tags.  But have you every 
> actually tested that?
>
> In fact, older versions of Velocity do not.  I Have tested.
>
> Velocity throws a Velocity exception:  "the <canvas> tag is not recognized"  
> or "<video> is not recognized".
>
> This occurs when you set the HTML doctype for HTML5 and add nothing else but 
> a canvas or a video tag.
>
> In a previously working VM template.
>
> However, the same HTML renders fine in any browser.
> ________________________________________
> From: Nathan Bubna [nbu...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 11:57 AM
> To: general
> Subject: Re: Which versions of Velocity support HTML5?
>
> All versions of Velocity support all versions of HTML, and every other
> text format out there.
>
> Velocity is a general purpose template engine for processing any and
> all text content.  It neither knows nor cares what HTML tags you have
> in your templates.  Perhaps Click is throwing exceptions about HTML5
> tags, though i doubt that too.  Perhaps you could share one of these
> exceptions you are getting?
>
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Brad Sisk <s...@prime-research.com> wrote:
>> Our software uses Velocity, as it is bundled inside the Apache Click 
>> library. This software was written years ago by someone else--I maintain it 
>> now.
>>
>> We've discovered that the VelocityEngine throws Exceptions whenever it 
>> encounters HTML5 tags, like <canvas> or <video> , inside a VM template.
>>
>> So we need to upgrade our Velocity version (to allow HTML5 tags).
>>
>>
>> Which versions of the Velocity library can handle HTML5 tags (no 
>> Exceptions)? I need version numbers here.
>>
>>
>> Which versions of Click contain a version of Velocity which can handle HTML5 
>> tags?
>>
>>
>> I have already tried and elimiated Click2.3, it does not.
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