[BATIK-941] SVGGraphics2D: Allow toggling the output of DOCTYPE declaration

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.8
• Component/s: SVGGraphics2D
• Environment: Operating System: All; Platform: All; URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/intro.html#NamespaceAndDTDIdentifiers
• Assignee: Batik Developer's Mailing list
• Reporter: Helder Magalhães
• Created: 05/Apr/10 13:59
• Updated: 13/Aug/12 18:39

Description

In the current draft for SVG 1.1 Second Edition, DOCTYPE declaration usage is not being recommended [bug's URL].

It seems that suppressing it isn't trivial [1] but there are known workarounds (a couple in the provided link).

The idea would be adding a mechanism to control the output of the DOCTYPE declaration. Also, maybe change the default to "do not emit the DOCTYPE" as well.

[1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/xmlgraphics-batik-users/200908.mbox/[e-mail]%3E