The bummer is that the rename trick only works until you close the project. The next time you open the project, IDEA will no longer consider the .html file an XML file, but rather a plain old HTML file.
This is an old bug, but i guess one that isn't too high priority. Search the archives for more discussion on this. chris > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 4:39 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Eap-bugs] 627: (X)HTML - Doctype > > > I found that IDEA is very convenient for editing XML so I > decided to use it > to edit XHTML files too... But the file extension of my files are now > ".html" rather than ".xml" => the XHTML doctype (<!DOCTYPE > html PUBLIC > "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>) is not > recognized by > IDEA , and I cannot use the code completion, validation, etc. > available > with XML files. But IDEA can do it ! If you create a XML > file (with ".xml" > extension), add the appropriate doctype, save and finally > simply rename it > with the ".html" extension: it does work ! The XHTML file is > now treated > like an XML one... (and it is !!!) but without the ".xml" extension. > > Would it be possible for IDEA to use/interpret doctypes in HTML files > "automatically" (without the workaround) ? > > Thank you. > > BM > > > _______________________________________________ > Eap-bugs mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.jetbrains.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-bugs > _______________________________________________ Eap-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.jetbrains.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-bugs
