- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:32:48 -0400
- To: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- CC: mark.birbeck@x-port.net, public-appformats@w3.org, www-forms@w3.org
Lachlan Hunt wrote: > Perhaps, theoretically, it may be XML. But practically speaking, using > an XHTML DOCTYPE, xmlns attribute and/or XML declaration is virtually > irrelevant, and documents served as text/html will be handled as tag > soup, not XML. So for all intents and purposes, such documents should > be considered to be HTML. In a typical browser, yes. However I routinely download such pages with non-browser-tools based on XML parsers; and there the results are quite different. In these contexts, the XML-nature of these pages is very useful to me. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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