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Having trouble with xml based templating engines that don't allow you to declare a modern doctype? Use this little snippet to dynamically switch it to something sane!
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| <script> | |
| (function switchToHTML5() { | |
| // create an html5 doctype | |
| var newDoctype = document.implementation.createDocumentType('html', '', ''); | |
| if (document.doctype) { | |
| document.doctype.parentNode.replaceChild(newDoctype, document.doctype); | |
| } else { | |
| var currentHtml = document.head.parentNode; | |
| currentHtml.parentNode.insertBefore(newDoctype, currentHtml) | |
| } | |
| })(); | |
| </script> |
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