Spring-boot: SAXParseException when element in html5 is selfing-closing tags ( </link> ) - Spring boot 1.1.4

[ghost]

When we enable thymeleaf and if the html5 page is with self-closed tag, i get exception:

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The element type "link" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</link>".
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:203)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:177)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:441)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:368)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(XMLScanner.java:1436)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1748)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:2957)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:606)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:510)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:848)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:777)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:141)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1213)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:649)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:333)
    at org.thymeleaf.templateparser.xmlsax.AbstractNonValidatingSAXTemplateParser.doParse(AbstractNonValidatingSAXTemplateParser.java:209)
    at org.thymeleaf.templateparser.xmlsax.AbstractNonValidatingSAXTemplateParser.parseTemplateUsingPool(AbstractNonValidatingSAXTemplateParser.java:133)
    at org.thymeleaf.templateparser.xmlsax.AbstractNonValidatingSAXTemplateParser.parseTemplate(AbstractNonValidatingSAXTemplateParser.java:116)
    at org.thymeleaf.TemplateRepository.getTemplate(TemplateRepository.java:277)
    at org.thymeleaf.TemplateEngine.process(TemplateEngine.java:1104)
    at org.thymeleaf.TemplateEngine.process(TemplateEngine.java:1060)
    at org.thymeleaf.TemplateEngine.process(TemplateEngine.java:1011)
    at org.thymeleaf.spring4.view.ThymeleafView.renderFragment(ThymeleafView.java:335)
    at org.thymeleaf.spring4.view.ThymeleafView.render(ThymeleafView.java:190)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.render(DispatcherServlet.java:1221)

[ghost]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3558119/are-self-closing-tags-valid-in-html5

[philwebb]

You probably need to ask someone from Thymeleaf about this. Spring Boot isn't doing anything special here. Their manual covers some of the templating options here: http://www.thymeleaf.org/doc/usingthymeleaf.html#what-kind-of-templates-can-thymeleaf-process.

You might want to post the question on stackoverflow.

[ghost]

I resolved the problem.

Set the property "spring,thymeleaf.mode" to "LEGACYHTML5".

spring.thymeleaf.mode=LEGACYHTML5

And in the pom.xml, add the dependency:

<dependency>
   <groupId>net.sourceforge.nekohtml</groupId>
   <artifactId>nekohtml</artifactId>
   <version>1.9.21</version>
</dependency>

[yoonsubKim]

@phouverney thanks to your advice.
I resolved this problem.

[mroodschild]

@phouverney Thanks!!!

[bigalnz]

I am in Springboot 2.0.3 and getting this issue. What is the fix please?