RE: [Springframework-developer] Commons-Validator for Spring

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On 03-12-2004 6:37 -0700 Matt Raible <li...@ra...> wrote:
> Actually, I've tested this with the current Commons Validator and the
> JavaScript doesn't care if you have name="x" on your form or id="x".  So
> it's really just a question of whether other taglibs generate valid
> <form> markup.  Struts doesn't generate XHTML 1.0 Strict markup b/c of
> the name vs. id attribute.  Personally, I aimed for strict compliance
> for about a year and found it was more trouble than it was worth.
> Transitional works just as good and you still get well-formed XML.  Any
> reason you prefer Strict over Transitional?

One of the main reasons, so far, has been to allow use of XSLT to do 
refactoring. Obviously, not all projects benefit from this but I was 
working on an application with a huge number of pages and having validating 
XML was great.

The second reason is JSP 2.0. The new applications we're developing right 
now are using JSP 2.0 and benefiting from cleaner templates. Since JSP 2.0 
suppose matching namespaces to taglibs, using a validating editor allows 
you to almost completely eliminate any typos. *Really* nice. You can still 
screw-up your EL, mind you.

A.

P.S. External JS with Struts, thanks.

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