JDK-8172474 : javac should enable doclint checking for HTML 5
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: tools
  • Sub-Component: javac
  • Affected Version: 9
  • Priority: P3
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Submitted: 2017-01-10
  • Updated: 2017-05-17
  • Resolved: 2017-01-13
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JDK 9
9 b153Fixed
Related Reports
Relates :  
JDK-8072945 - Javadoc should generate valid and compliant HTML5 output
Description
JDK-8072945 added support for HTML into doclint and javadoc, but omitted to provide an option to enable the feature in javac.

javac should have an option to enable doclint checking for HTML 5.
Comments
For consideration, we might want to (eventually) convert to supporting --doclint --doclint-packages --doclint-format
11-01-2017
We already have -Xdoclint:suboptions where suboptions is a Xlint-like list of combinations of all, [-]accessibility, [-]html, [-]reference, [-]syntax etc but trying to merge html5 into that looks too complicated and confusing. The other related option is -Xdoclint/packages:.... and so based on that, the proposed option is -Xdoclint/format:<format> where <format> is one of html4, html5.
11-01-2017