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Content Type and Markup Output

Tapestry reads well-formed XML template files and renders its output as XML, with minor caveats:

• The <?xml?> XML declaration is omitted.
• Most element elements render with an open and close tag, even if empty.
• Certain elements will be abbreviated to just the open tag, if empty:
  • br
  • hr
  • img
• <![CDATA[]> sections are not used

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The character set (aka character encoding) used when writing output and when parsing requests is normally "utf-8". UTF-8 is a version of Unicode where individual characters are encoded as one or more to four 8-bit bytes. Most western language characters (that is, typical ASCII characters) are encoded in a single byte. Accented characters or non-western characters (such as Japanese, Arabic, etc.) may be encoded as two or more bytes.

All In Tapestry, all pages use the same encoding, which . The default is "UTF-8", but this can be set changed using the tapestry.charset configuration settingsymbol.