Add support ala Struts to generate HTML or XHTML compliant close tags
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Key: STS-751
URL: http://www.stripesframework.org/jira/browse/STS-751
Project: Stripes
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Tag Library
Affects Versions: Release 1.5
Environment: No specific OS required; no specific Java version
required; etc...
Reporter: Nikolaos
HTML and XHTML documents have some key differences.
For example - if we consider the <input> tag:
- In HTML, the <input> tag has no end tag e.g. <input name="website.url"
type="text" size="30">
- In XHTML, the <input> tag must be properly closed, like this <input /> e.g.
<input name="website.url" type="text" size="30" />
Stripes 1.5.x however does not have a mechanism to discern whether or not to
properly close tags or not and as such takes the safer approach which is to
explicitly close tags as it results in valid XHTML and is not an error for HTML
but results in a warning when validating HTML documents. Although the latter
is not a critical issue it does result in needless or unnecessary complaints
when validating and as such is an annoyance albeit minor.
Struts since 1.x has solved this issue quite easily by allowing the inclusion
of the xhtml="true" attribute to mark that closure is required (false indicates
no closure). In this manner authors of XHTML and HTML documents are equally
satisfied in not having any errors or extraneous warnings.
Timothy Stone had reported this issue and classified it as a bug here:
http://www.stripesframework.org/jira/browse/STS-556?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=11931#action_11931
The issue was rightly closed as "Not a bug" as most of the discussion was based
on a non-w3c validator which yielded results that considered the validation
unsuccessful which is not the case with the w3c validator (not to mention that
it is irrelevant whether or not XHTML is considered dead or we should align to
HTML 5 - etc...).
As such this issue report is a re-statement of the above closed issue reported
as an improvement and setting the stage for patch to be attached.
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