[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Adding a setting in the skins to select the rendering syntax

Hi. Problem: in XWiki, we have currently 2 main skins, Colibri (to be deprecated) and Flamingo, that did not share the same doctype. Colibri templates are using the XHTML 1.0 syntax, meanwhile Flamingo uses the HTML 5 syntax. Currently, we have hard-coded in a lot of places the fact that we use XHTML 1.0 syntax, but I would like to replace this by a new setting, skin-dependant, to select the rendering syntax we want. It would enable us to generate valid code (with the HTML cleaner, among other things) for each skin we support. This setting will be located in the XWiki.XWikiSkins objects, and in the skin.properties file for file system skins. Of course we also need to add a new API to get the current rendering syntax. The alternative is to create a global setting or constant to set the rendering syntax for the whole XWiki instance. Some discussions about this there: http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-11602 Here is my +1, Thanks, -- Guillaume Delhumeau (gdelhumeau(a)xwiki.com) Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS Committer on the XWiki.org project