Re: new TAG issue TagSoupIntegration-54

On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 00:42 -0400, Mark Baker wrote:
> Hixie writes;
> > > This isn't hypothetical; it is the situation we are in today with XHTML
> > > documents sent as text/html. UAs cannot use XML parsers to parse these
> > > XHTML-sent-as-text/html documents, even if they could find a way to detect
> > > them, because a huge fraction of such documents are ill-formed and would
> > > thus render *worse* in new UAs than in legacy UAs.
> 
> I don't understand why this is an issue.  The authoritative metadata
> finding makes it clear that the media type determines how the document
> is to be interpreted, and nothing in RFC 2854 (text/html) or the HTML
> family of specifications suggests that running a text/html document
> through an XML parser would yield anything which meaningfully
> represents what the sender was trying to convey.

Perhaps you missed this?

[[
      In addition, [XHTML1]
      defines a profile of use of XHTML which is compatible with HTML
      4.01 and which may also be labeled as text/html.
]]
 -- http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2854.txt


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