[jsr-314-open] Components

Thu Oct 15 13:45:27 EDT 2009

Dan Allen wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Andy Schwartz 
> <andy.schwartz at oracle.com <mailto:andy.schwartz at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     Regarding a document component - yep, I would like to see this
>     considered since the type of content (eg. HTML vs. XHTML) and the
>     choice of dtd may vary by render kit, yet we do not have an
>     abstraction that covers this today.  I think that this could live
>     in the h:namespace as it is a slightly higher level abstraction
>     for the <html> element.
>
>
> What's funny is that most of us have probably written our own doctype 
> tag one way or another.
>
> <x:doctype type="xhtml" compliance="strict"/>

FWIW, both Trindiad (tr:document) and ADF Faces (af:document) have a 
document component/render that picks the appropriate doc type (in a 
render kit-specific manner), rather than have the page author specify 
this manually.

Andy

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