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           Summary: Addition of <HTML:DOCTYPE /> tag.
           Product: Struts
           Version: Unknown
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows 2000
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: Unknown
        AssignedTo: dev@struts.apache.org
        ReportedBy: grahamr@ntlworld.com


I would like to see a tag (or have it automatically added as part of the
<html:html> tag) that would add the DOCTYPE automatically to the document. 
Since the jsp file will eventually be passed as html to the browser and the
(x)html specs require a doctype [1, 2] then it seems prudent to have a tag that
will do the job automatically.

Like I mentioned there are two possible ways of dealing with this.  The first is
to add one automatically as part of the <html:html> tag, and add a couple of new
attributes for the tag or have a new tag entirely for the purpose of doctype. 
Personally I fall into the second camp.

My suggestion for the format of the tag would be this (sorry if there is a
formal way of describing this):

Tag:  doctype
Attributes:
 * type : Required. This lists the type of markup (regular html or xhtml)
 * version : Optional. The level of markup. Important for deprecation of tags
and refinements. Possible values for html are 3.2, 4.0, 4.01 (html default) and
for xhtml is 1.0 (default) and 1.1.
 * level : Optional: This determines what level the user would like.  The
possible values are strict (default), trans, and frames.  In html 4.01 the
transitional maps to the loose.dtd.

Examples:
<html:doctype type="xhtml" version="1.1" level="strict" />
<html:doctype type="html" version="4.01" level="trans" />+
<html:doctype type="html" version="4.0" level="frames" />

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#docconf

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Personally, I say author to meet the standards body regulations, or don't bother
authoring at all.  No point otherwise.

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