dreamweaver.createXHTMLDocument()
Availability
Dreamweaver MX.
Description
Depending on the argument that you pass to this function, it opens a new XHTML
document either in the same window or in a new window. The new document becomes the
active document. It is similar to the
When Dreamweaver creates a new XHTML document, it reads a file named default.xhtml,
which is located in the Configuration/Templates folder, and, using the content of that file,
creates an output file that contains the following skeleton declarations:
<?xml version="1.0">
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=" />
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
</body>
</html>
The default document type definition (DTD) declaration is
rather than
. If the user adds a frameset to the document, Dreamweaver switches the
Strict
DTD to
XHTML 1.0 Frameset
left out of the default.xhtml file but is filled in before the user views the new document. The
directive is not required if the document uses UTF-8 or UTF-16 character encoding; if
?xml
it is present, it might be rendered by some older browsers. However, because this directive
should be in an XHTML document, by default, Dreamweaver uses it (for both new and
converted documents). Users can manually delete the directive. The
the encoding attribute, which matches the
Arguments
{bOpenInSameWindow}
The
bOpenInSameWindow
new document in the current window. If this value is
is called on the Macintosh, the new document opens in a separate window.
308
Document
dreamweaver.createDocument()
.
is
Content-Type
text/html
charset
argument is a Boolean value that indicates whether to open the
function.
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
, and
charset
?xml
in the
Content-Type
or omitted, or if the function
false
,
is intentionally
directive includes
attribute.
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