HTML Strict and XHTML

[Wouter Huijnink <wo...@func.nl>]

I have been subclassing tags in order to get HTML strict output. I wonder whether HTML Strict and XHTML are already being integrated in the taglibs project, and/or whether it would be possible to start contributing with respect to this subject.

I also noticed that subclassing existing tags to achieve HTML Strict can be pretty tedious. For instance, I wanted my SelectTag to write "selected" instead of "selected='true'" at the selected option. Overriding the outputOption method would have sufficed, if only its accessability had been protected instead of private. Now I had to copy the entire Select source, adjust 1 line of code, and include the package-scoped org.apache.taglibs.input.Util class as an inner class to achieve what I wanted. 

Is there a clearly defined policy at the taglibs project regarding the accessability of methods? I'd say one should be able to override any method that prints something to the JspWriter.

Regards,

Wouter


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Re: HTML_Strict_and_XHTML

[Lavandowska <fl...@yahoo.com>]

--- Wouter__Huijnink <wo...@func.nl> wrote:
> I also noticed that subclassing existing tags to achieve HTML Strict
> can be pretty tedious. For instance, I wanted my SelectTag to write
> "selected" instead of "selected='true'" at the selected option.

Strange, the SelectTag was made XHTML compliant a long time ago:
selected="selected" is the proper syntax.

Instead of subclassing, I suggest you submit patches: all the tags
should generate "valid" HTML, whether that be HTML 4.0 or XHTML ...

Lance


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