Re: [XHTML1.1] Media Types (was Error in Conformance Definition document?)

Lachlan Hunt wrote:

> AIUI, generally speaking, the MIME type used should be that of the host 
> language, which is determined by the root element.  While authors 
> probably shouldn't use application/xhtml+xml for such documents, there 
> is little problem in doing so because of namespaces.

This will harm content negotiation.  Consider and SVG document with some 
HTML, and an alternative, text/html document.  If the browsers 
understands the XHTML namespace, but not the SVG, it is likely to get 
the wrong variant.
> 

Received on Monday, 2 April 2007 20:52:14 UTC