xhtml+rdfa parsing as html Re: RDFa is a Candidate Recommendation

Le 23 juin 2008 à 14:29, Ben Adida a écrit :
> This is a bit complicated, as some processors make the request for  
> the URL and go from there, whereas other RDFa processors work  
> straight on the DOM inside a browser, thereby assuming that the  
> browser did the right thing with MIME types.
>
> In any case, I'm not sure this has any effect on the validator's  
> behavior, right?

If a document is sent as text/html, it will be processed following the  
HTML 5 parsing algorithm and will possibly give a very different DOM.

An XHTML document sent as text/html is not defined by [XHTML Media  
Types - Second Edition][1]. It is not said how it should be parsed,  
except referencing HTML 4.01 which recommends to parse as SGML. SGML  
parsers are not implemented in most user agents.


[1]: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2008/ED-xhtmlmime-20080618/

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