- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:19:40 +0000
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, david@djwhome.demon.co.uk, olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>, jkorpela@cs.tut.fi, karl@w3.org, link@pobox.com
- CC: www-validator <www-validator@w3.org>, www-html@w3.org
Forgive the multiplicity of named recipients, but I am very uncertain as to whom to address this : There has been a fairly protracted discussion recently concerning the pros and cons of serving XHTML documents as text/html or as application/xhtml+xml, but I was more than a little surprised today to discover that when the W3C (HTML) validator is asked to validate http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/ it states that the (page) is "Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional" without issuing even a warning that it is being served as text/html rather than application/xhtml+xml. Now it is clear from Section 5.1 of http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/ that this is acceptable, yet http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/ also states clearly that "application/xhtml+xml SHOULD be used for XHTML Family documents" My question is therefore : should not the validator issue a warning when this last guideline is ignored ? Philip Taylor
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