Allowing XHTML tags intellisense in Monorail documents

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PROBLEM:When editing Monorail views, you are losing the XHTML intellisense that normal webforms have in Visual Studio.

SOLUTION:Add a proper xmlns to the html tag.My layouts start with this:

   1:  <?brail 

   2:      output '<'

   3:      output '?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?'

   4:      output '&gt;'

   5:  ?>

   6:  &lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt;

   7:  &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="he-il" lang="he" &gt;

This applies to brail, but can of course be used on any other view engine, with the needed adjustments.

Lines 1-5 is needed due to a bug(?) in some versions of brail. brail used to recognize a script by ‘<? ?>’, ‘<?brail ?>’ and ‘<% %>’ signs. therefore, using a <?xml ?> declaration caused the boo compiler to say that he knows nothing about ‘xml’. I think that Ayende has solved the problem now, by allowing only ‘<?brail ?>’, but I think it’s not yet on the main trunk, so I still use the listed method.

Line 6 is the DOCTYPE, I use XHTML 1.0 transitional.

Line 7 is the magic part. Visual Studio parses this line, reads the xmlns, and can hint you with intellisense forhtml tags and attributes. The xml:lang and lang attributes are of course changeable.

It works in layouts, or in views that are a full html document (with <html> tag) but not with VieComponents or views that uses layouts.

If someone has a way to do that, please share it.

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