[Geany] HTML5 entities

[Dominic Hopf]

Am Samstag, den 23.10.2010, 10:49 +1100 schrieb Lex Trotman:
> On 23 October 2010 03:56, Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 23:46:08 +1100
> > Ross McKay <rosko at zeta.org.au> wrote:
> >
> >> The following can be tacked onto the end of the html keywords line in
> >> filetypes.xml for the HTML5 new elements to be recognised:
> >>
> >> article aside audio canvas command details datalist figure figcaption
> >> footer header hgroup keygen mark meter nav output progress section time
> >> video wbr
> >
> > Done, thanks.
> >
> >> What would be quite nice is to be able to have different modes for
> >> HTML/XHTML to allow for the defined keywords of each doctype to be
> >> recognised as appropriate, e.g. HTML <=4 and XHTML won't know what a
> >> canvas is so it should appear as an error in those doctypes, and HTML5
> >> won't know what center is (which is just as well because it's misspelled
> >> in all but Wronglish :)
> >
> > Not sure about HTML5, but it might be nice to have a separate XHTML
> > filetype. I don't know if making a custom filetype would work but it
> > might be worth investigating if you like:
> >
> > http://www.geany.org/manual/dev/index.html#custom-filetypes
> >
> > Nick
> 
> Hi Ross, Nick,
> 
> The problem I see is identifying the filetype, lots of (most?) xhtml
> tools generate files with the .html extension so you would have to
> read the file contents to identify it.  IIUC custom filetypes only use
> the extension not the contents. And I expect HTML5 would have the same
> problem.

It's at least a nice idea to detect this from the content if the file
contains a DOCTYPE directive. The keywords may be actually read from the
document type definition itself, then (e.g. [1]). But since this is very
special for (X)HTML, it may be better implemented in a plugin.

Also, that wouldn't work for cases, where parts of HTML files are
included into an index file and just the index file contains the doctype
directive. I'm doing this often, that I include files via PHP include()
function or SSI #include. plugins.geany.org is an example for that. In
this case I tend to say, let's just configure the (X)HTML version
written by project settings under Project->Properties Menu. Maybe a
plugin could add a new tab there? :)

Best Regards,
Dominic

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd

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