ehm, it should be Matt, sorry for that ;-) ________________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marijan Miličević [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 1:10 AM To: Stripes Users List Subject: Re: [Stripes-users] /> versus >
Hi Mark, ever tried <script src="xx.js" type-"text/blah/javascript" /> in your browser? ________________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Brock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 12:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Stripes-users] /> versus > Alan Burlison wrote: I'm trying to get my pages to validate as HTML 4.01 strict, but the Stripes tags output "/>" instead of ">" on the output they generate. I'm sure I've seen this discussed somewhere, but for the life of me I can't find it. You would have to use your own tag library, or hack into the current one. It would be a big pain in the ass to extend the current system, and frankly I don't think it would work because of all the interdependencies, so really the best way to do it would be to get the stripes source, build it yourself, make your own little branch for yourself and just code in your own replacement to the following file:net.sourceforge.stripes.tag.HtmlTagSupport.java. Specifically, this part: /** * Writes out a close tag using the tag name supplied. * * @param writer the JspWriter to write the open tag to * @param tag the name of the tag to use * @throws JspException if the JspWriter causes an exception **/ protected void writeCloseTag(JspWriter writer, String tag) throws JspException { try { writer.print("</"); writer.print(tag); writer.print(">"); } catch (IOException ioe) { JspException jspe = new JspException("IOException encountered while writing close tag </" + tag + "> to the JspWriter.", ioe); log.warn(jspe); throw jspe; } } /** * Writes out a singleton tag (aka a bodiless tag or self-closing tag). Similar to * writeOpenTag except that instead of leaving the tag open, it closes the tag. * * @param writer the JspWriter to write the open tag to * @param tag the name of the tag to use * @throws JspException if the JspWriter causes an exception **/ protected void writeSingletonTag(JspWriter writer, String tag) throws JspException { try { writer.print("<"); writer.print(tag); writeAttributes(writer); writer.print(" />"); } catch (IOException ioe) { JspException jspe = new JspException("IOException encountered while writing singleton tag &t;" + tag + "/> to the JspWriter.", ioe); log.warn(jspe); throw jspe; } This would be about where you'd throw in some kind of lookup table to verify the tag is a self-closing or an open-style tag. But let me warn you, HTML 4.01 Strict has a dark side. And it looks something like this: <table> <tr> <td>I'm a table cell! <td>Hey, I didn't even put a closing tag. <td>Hey, that's kind-of screwed-up, don't ya' think? <tr> <td colspan=3>Wow, don't even need quotes, huh? That's valid you say? Yeesh. Looks pretty ugly to me. </table> At some point you've got to ask yourself, if it's really just a guideline, how much time are you spending trying to satisfy some kind of self-satisfied ego-trip? Don't get me wrong, I've spent countless hours trying to make my documents HTML 4.01 Strict... no closing tags on inputs, imgs, links, brs... all sorts of things. But if it's not perfect, it doesn't make it the end of the world. Most web browsers since Netscape/IE 3 have understood that the HTML they got in wasn't going to be perfectly formatted, and it will still work with close tag or without, so what's the difference? I mean, there's no gold ribbon for being perfectly HTML 4.01 Strict compliant, you know. You can't even make the XML argument, which goes something like, "Parsers can operate faster if they're guaranteed valid XML input" which is a load of hooey, but regardless, none of it matters. If you send your document in HTML, it gets treated like tag soup by the browser. If you send it in perfect XML you'll still<http://www.killersites.com/blog/2005/tag-soup-why-using-xhtml-does-make-sense/> probably get treated like tag soup. And for what? Are your pages going to look any better magically? No. Are they going to function better? No. Are they going to be smaller, and faster? Perhaps a bit. But big deal. You'll spend more cycles looking up whether this tag is self-closing or that one isn't, when you could just say, heck with it, just follow a simple pattern that all the browsers will understand and leave the dogma at the doorstep. ________________________________ View this message in context: Re: /> versus ><http://www.nabble.com/-%3E-versus-%3E-tp16333786p16341387.html> Sent from the stripes-users mailing list archive<http://www.nabble.com/stripes-users-f16325.html> at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. 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