Set doctype for HTML 5 in SitePublisher

Hi,

My requirement is to set the doctype for HTML5 in the static HTML pages generated with SitePublisher. By default, while creating a page, the user gets an option to select the page type as HTML 5, but when I look at the html generated from the .page, the doctype is totally missing.
In the SP dev guide, HTML 5 is not in the default doctypes matrix, but, it is still present in the default options. Any quick suggestions on how can I include that while creating a page?

P.S. I have several custom fixed layouts in the iw folder which I need to use accordingly with the HTML 5 pagetype. Making HTML5 as a custom page type is therefore not an option.

Thanks,
Samir
TS/LS 7.2.0, RHEL 5.3

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mstradling

Probably too late to help you but I've just run in to this issue and found an answer in the KB. Unfortunately that answer was "No".

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Problem:

Setting doctype within SitePublisher edit GUIFdG: HTML5 pagetypes do not produce a doctype in the generated code. IE browsers below version 9 will therefore render the page in quirks mode, leading to incorrect formatting. It is not possible to modify the pagetype-config.xml file to create the required doctype.

Solution:

Pagetype-config.xml will only lead to a <!DOCTYPE ...> if either the <doctype-public> or the <doctype-system> elements (or both) have a value. Therefore, a <!DOCTYPE html> (no public and no system id) is not possible.

The objective of <!DOCTYPE html> is to force the browser into standards mode. This can be achieved with other doctypes as well. Modifying pagetype-config.xml to override the html5 pagetype like:


<page-types>
    <page-type id="html5">
        <name>HTML 5</name>
        <output>
            <doctype>
                <document-root>html</document-root>
                <doctype-public>-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN</doctype-public>
                <doctype-system>http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd</doctype-system>
            </doctype>
            <method>html</method>
            <content-type>text/html</content-type>
            <omit-xml-declaration>true</omit-xml-declaration>
        </output>
        <allowed-layouts>
            <layout refid="div-layout"/>
            <layout refid="table-layout"/>
            <layout refid="fixed-layout"/>
        </allowed-layouts>
    </page-type>
</page-types>

will produce a doctype: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">, which achieves the required result.

This doctype is one of the few doctypes that force all modern browsers into standards mode. See also http://html5doctor.com/how-to-get-html5-working-in-ie-and-firefox-2.

Samir_Friend

Thanks. We solved it by overriding the default XSL used to generate all pages using a custom one.

miroperez

There is a patch in process for 7.2.1 to allow for:

but hasn't been requested for 7.2 yet. Ask support about your options since you are on 7.2.