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Kevin,
On 8/7/15 10:24 AM, Kevin Hale Boyes wrote:
> I want to use a jspx to generate some HTML5 but I'm running into a
> strange problem. I've produced a very small test to demonstrate the
> problem.
>
> In the jspx pasted below if I remove the comment in the <script>
> tag (in the head) then the page won't render properly in chrome
> browser. When I have a non-empty <script> tag then it renders
> fine.
>
> I've used curl to look at the HTML being generated from Tomcat and
> can see the difference. When the <script> tag is empty it gets
> rendered as a self-closing tag: <script src="sayhi.js"
> type="text/javascript"/> When I put in the comment it gets rendered
> as I expect (not self-closing): <script src="sayhi.js"
> type="text/javascript">// tag can not be empty</script>
>
> Why does this happen? It's quite natural to write the empty
> <script> tag and countless example exist so why can't I do it from
> my jspx?
>
> Thanks, Kevin.
>
> P.S. the sayhi.js file contains function sayhi() { alert('HI!');
> }
>
>
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>
> <jsp:root version="2.1" xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page";>
>
> <jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"
> /> <jsp:output omit-xml-declaration="true" /> <jsp:output
> doctype-root-element="html" doctype-system="about:legacy-compat"
> />
>
> <html> <head> <script type="text/javascript" src="sayhi.js">// tag
> can not be empty</script> </head> <body> <h1>HTML5 from jspx</h1>
> <script type="text/javascript">sayhi();</script> </body> </html>
>
> </jsp:root>
This is a common problem, and the reason for it is that <script> for
some reason, in every browser I've ever seen, completely fails to
parse correctly if it's a self-terminating tag like <script />. When
you use .jspx, the input and output are assumed to be both well-formed
XML where <script /> is perfectly acceptable.
IMO this is a problem with browsers. Even in standards-compliance
mode, they seem to demand that <script> be a paired tag. Thus, all of
our script tags that reference external files are written like this:
<script src="(script)" type="text/javascript"><!-- --></script>
This will force the XML serializer to retain the comment and force a
paired tag.
Hope that helps,
- -chris
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