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Timothy Stone commented on STS-751:
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I voted for this issue to cancel any future vote by Iwao AVE!. :P
As Iwao is regular voice heard on the mailing list and I'm a n00b with a
narrowly focused agenda (or so it may seem to the Java engineer with a casual
exposure to HTML), I'll keep plugging at the issue in some spare cycles. Know
that my solicitation for help was sincere and the focus of my fix is a little
more than the "occasional HTML validator warning."
Iwao's suggestion to locally fork, while both *extremely trivial* and an option
for users of Stripes in small or medium business projects, it is not an option
for large, international organizations with governance and other regulatory
oversight on OSS use.
Iwao's comment: "And if somebody chose Struts because Stripes has less options,
why don't we just let him/her do so? :p" is more than a little disheartening.
Stripes should be winning the hearts and minds of not just MVC framework
decision makers, but the HTML developers using the tags.
Nikolaos made some important arguments in STS-556. I have since realized my
position did not cover the scope of the problem. Moreover, I failed to clearly
illustrate the issue and relied on readers here to investigate the standards
and trends, beyond validation tools on the internet. I pulled back from the
debate in STS-556, and with this comment, realized I should not have.
> 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
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: stripes-xhtml-patch.tar.gz, stripes-xhtml-patches.tar.gz
>
>
> 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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