On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 16:11 -0600, Boyd, Todd M. wrote:
> Before some of you newbies feel like being heroes and jump all over me:
>
> I KNOW THIS IS A PHP-RELATED LIST. IF YOU DON'T LIKE MY QUESTION, DON'T
> ANSWER IT.
>
> Now that that's out of the way... I have a Javascript question (and
> maybe a Browser/DOM question) for you folks. I'm not sure this is
> anything they teach you in any online/in-seat/self-taught Javascript
> course that I've ever seen before, so I figured I would bring it here.
>
> My boss asked me if I knew of a tool that would change the <!DOCTYPE> of
> a page on-the-fly to test validation in different schemes (i.e., XHTML
> Strict, Transitional, Loose, etc.). After a bit of looking around, this
> is the solution I came up with (as a bookmarklet):
>
> javascript:document.write('<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
> Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>' +
> document.getElementsByTagName('html')[0].innerHTML);
>
> However, I'm not sure it will fire any validation events, since
> technically the page has already been loaded (Javascript is just adding
> more text). I fear the case will be the same if the current page's
> source is sent to a new browser window.
>
> I'm not asking for any coding suggestions, necessarily--just curious as
> to whether or not anyone knew if this will invoke browser validation
> events or not. Comments and questions are more than welcome, though. :)
Can't you do it via PHP using a GET parameter? Seems more likely to work
properly since it requires the page be reloaded on a fresh slate. While
at the same time, it will easily jump through the doctypes that the
server deems suitable given the parameter
http://www.www.www/foo.php?doctype=xmlstrict1.0
Cheers,
Rob.
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