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Ben Gunter commented on STS-751:
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Wow. You guys must *really* hate HTML validator warnings. ;)

> Add support ala Struts to generate HTML or XHTML compliant close tags
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 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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