[Bug 14] XHTML Detection is over-eager.

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14





------- Comment #7 from ot@w3.org  2007-05-31 01:04 -------
(In reply to comment #3)
> According to the HTML WG, a UA is non-compliant if it handles an XHTML document
> sent as text/html as XHTML; such a UA must apparently handle the document as
> HTML regardless of what it looks like.

According to the WG, XHTML is always XML, and should be validated as such.

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2007Apr/0175.html

> But I don't know if they meant to include validators in that statement.

Apparently not.

Received on Thursday, 31 May 2007 01:04:03 UTC