- From: Brian Kelly <B.Kelly@ukoln.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 15:07:29 +0100
- To: 'Jim Ley' <jim@jibbering.com>, public-evangelist@w3.org
> "Brian Kelly" <B.Kelly@ukoln.ac.uk> > > As I mentioned to you at the WWW 2003 conference I'm > involved in QA > > support for a number of digital library programmes in the UK Higher > > Education community. > > Details of our work are given in a couple of papers, which are > > available from: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/qa-focus/documents/papers/ > > As always another site which has singularly failed to swallow > it's own dogfood, you cannot serve XHTML 1.0 as text/html > unless it follows Appendix C of XHTML, the above document > does not follow Appendix C, and is served as text/html so > whilst the material looks incredibly useful and valuable, the > fact it can be shot down so easily makes it useless, we can't > use it to educate people. > > Jim. Hi Jim Thanks for the comments. I assume you're referring to Appendix C in: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/ (which states that "This appendix is informative."). It's not clear to me what I should do. Are you saying the page should be XHTML 1.0 strict, that I need an XML PI, that I need to use a different character encoding or that I should use another MIME type? Hmm. Have just read section 3.1 in http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/ which does not seem to *ban* this MIME type although it's clearly not recommended: "In **general**, this media type is NOT suitable for XHTML. ..." "The use of 'text/html' for XHTML SHOULD be limited for the purpose of ..." I'd be happy to move to 'application/xhtml+xml' - but there will need to be testing for any problems with other resources on the Web site (which aren't managed by me). The document is XHTML 1.0 compliant (append ,validate to the URL) Note that I've not said anything about MIME types in my documents - but I guess this would be a useful document to be produced. Brian --------------------------------------- Brian Kelly UK Web Focus UKOLN University of Bath BATH BA2 7AY Email: B.Kelly@ukoln.ac.uk Web: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ Phone: 01225 383943 FOAF: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/b.kelly/foaf/bkelly-foaf.xrdf For info on FOAF see http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/b.kelly/foaf/
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