Re: Problems with Taglibs

From:

Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:51:07 -0500

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Arne VajhQj wrote:

Lew wrote:

Mark Space wrote:

Lew wrote:

This is a misapprehension of the nature of the DOCTYPE directive.
Have you ever done "view source" on generated HTML? The DOCTYPE is
not there, is it?

I think I must misunderstand. You mean "View->Source" from a
browser? DOCTYPE sure as heck is present. It's the first thing in
the document.

I assume you must mean view source from somewhere else?

You assume incorrectly.

I just again, as I did before my prior post, open up www.lewscanon.com
with Firefox and did a "view source". No DOCTYPE present. Sure as heck.

<%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8"%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<%
out.println("Hello world !");
%>

Tomcat 5.5 gives me:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
Hello world !

so it seems to to depend on something.

Well I certainly learned something new from that. Now I know that lacking a
DOCTYPE is not universal, and I can check that assumption at the door.

The site I used was off the 'Net, not from a local Tomcat. There's one
difference right there.

--
Lew