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The first one is for HTML5 and is recommended for Tapestry 5.2.5 and later. In versions prior to Tapestry 5.2.5, Tapestry didn't support the HTML5 doctype directly (but see the comments at TAP5-1040), but there's a partial work-around: just add the following to your page class (or your layout class, if you use one) instead of adding the doctype to your template (.tml) files:
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for a work-around).
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| Tapestry 5.3 introduced two significant improvements to template Doctypes. A template without a is parsed as if it had the HTML Doctype ({{}}). In fact, Tapestry creates an in-memory copy of the template that includes the doctype. A template with the HTML Doctype ({{}}) is parsed _as if_ it had the XHTML transitional Doctype. In fact, Tapestry creates an in-memory copy of the template that replaces the line. This applies as well to a template without any Doctype, in which case the XHTML transitional Doctype is inserted at the top. In either case, this means you can use arbitrary HTML entities, such as {{©}} or {{ }} without seeing the XML parsing errors that would occur in earlier releases. |
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