Generating valid HTML from tag

2004-12-13 Thread William Ferguson
I noticed that the html generated form the tag is not valid HTML according to the W3C validation service (http://validator.w3.org). It generates a tag with a 'name' attribute which has been deprecated. Since I'm striving to conform to relevant standards as best as possible, I was wondering wheth

Re: Generating valid HTML from tag

2004-12-13 Thread DGraham
Is it the opinion of others that "deprecated" is semantically equivalent to "invalid"? Dennis "William Ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/14/2004 07:51 AM Please respond to "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To <[EMAIL

Re: Generating valid HTML from tag

2004-12-13 Thread William Ferguson
Well, the w3C validator certainly considers it to be invalid and is validating against the HTML 4.01 spec which came into being in December 1999. So I'd be inclined to say that 5 years is more than enough deprecation notice. William - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Is i

Re: Generating valid HTML from tag

2004-12-13 Thread Joe Germuska
At 10:51 PM +1000 12/14/04, William Ferguson wrote: I noticed that the html generated form the tag is not valid HTML according to the W3C validation service (http://validator.w3.org). It generates a tag with a 'name' attribute which has been deprecated. Since I'm striving to conform to relevant s

Re: Generating valid HTML from tag

2004-12-13 Thread Joe Germuska
At 7:46 AM -0600 12/14/04, Joe Germuska wrote: At 10:51 PM +1000 12/14/04, William Ferguson wrote: I noticed that the html generated form the tag is not valid HTML according to the W3C validation service (http://validator.w3.org). It generates a tag with a 'name' attribute which has been deprecat

Re: Generating valid HTML from tag

2004-12-13 Thread Niall Pemberton
Joe, maybe you were thinking of this one: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15023 Niall - Original Message - From: "Joe Germuska" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 2:22 PM Subject: Re: Generating valid HT

Re: Generating valid HTML from tag

2004-12-14 Thread Joe Germuska
At 2:31 PM + 12/14/04, Niall Pemberton wrote: Joe, maybe you were thinking of this one: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15023 No, but that's just because I didn't remember it ;-) That one generated a lot of discussion, so apparently people think it's important. I have to adm

Re: Generating valid HTML from tag

2004-12-14 Thread Martin Wegner
The Struts doc does suggest that should cause the tag to be XHTML compliant but for some reason it does not. The W3C XHTML validator also does not like the Struts output of the elements. Struts does not close them: . --Marty --- Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 14 D

Re: Generating valid HTML from tag

2004-12-14 Thread Derek Broughton
On Tuesday 14 December 2004 13:13, Martin Wegner wrote: > The Struts doc does suggest that should cause the > tag to be XHTML compliant but for some reason it does not. The W3C XHTML > validator also does not like the Struts output of the elements. > Struts does not close them: . > Well, then,

Re: Generating valid HTML from tag

2004-12-14 Thread D. Stimits
Martin Wegner wrote: The Struts doc does suggest that should cause the tag to be XHTML compliant but for some reason it does not. The W3C XHTML validator also does not like the Struts output of the elements. Struts does not close them: . This might help as a reference: http://struts.apache.or

Re: Generating valid HTML from tag

2004-12-14 Thread Martin Wegner
Niall, I would agree with you until a customer makes XHTML conformance a requirement in the contract. Strict XHTML conformance is very important to some customers, for various reasons. As previously posted, getting rid of the "name" attribute on the tag could be troublesome. But closing the t

Re: Generating valid HTML from tag

2004-12-15 Thread Derek Broughton
On Tuesday 14 December 2004 17:09, D. Stimits wrote: > Martin Wegner wrote: > > The Struts doc does suggest that should cause the > > tag to be XHTML compliant but for some reason it does not. The W3C XHTML > > validator also does not like the Struts output of the elements. > > Struts does not

Re: Generating valid HTML from tag

2004-12-15 Thread Martin Wegner
Agreed. That is where GoGoogleook me after I first tried to run the W3C conformance tester against a Struts generated page. Applying the or the tags did not cause Struts to close the tags or to remove the name attribute from the form tag (which I am not advocating anyway). If someone could pr

Re: Generating valid HTML from tag

2004-12-15 Thread Martin Wegner
[Curse that Yahoo Mail spell checker. Take 2] Agreed. That is where Google took me after I first tried to run the W3C conformance tester against a Struts generated page. Applying the or the tags did not cause Struts to close the tags or to remove the name attribute from the form tag (which

RE: Generating valid HTML from tag

2004-12-14 Thread Daniel Perry
atall. There's no need to use it with javascript anymore. Daniel. > -Original Message- > From: William Ferguson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 14 December 2004 13:30 > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Generating valid HTML from

Re: Generating valid HTML from tag

2004-12-14 Thread Derek Broughton
On Tuesday 14 December 2004 08:51, William Ferguson wrote: > I noticed that the html generated form the tag is not valid > HTML according to the W3C validation service (http://validator.w3.org). It > generates a tag with a 'name' attribute which has been deprecated. > > Since I'm striving to conf