[jsr-314-open] Facelets: XHTML vs. XML

[Dan Allen]

>
>>> Should the navigation handler also look for welcome.xml, or is that too
>>> naiive of a fix?
>>>
>>
>> Why don't you just make the javax.faces.DEFAULT_SUFFIX .xml?
>>
>
> I thought about that, but it begs the question: why is the default suffix
> .xhtml to begin with? Shouldn't it really be XML?
>

That's what I've been trying to say all along. I don't know why we don't
just adopt the suffix .view.xml. We could just do .xml, but I fear that
would seem a bit too generic. Either way, though, would at least get us away
from this notion that the templates are XHTML, which they are not. They
*sometimes* produce XHTML, but I have found them to also be very good for
producing RSS and ATOM feeds.

-Dan

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