Re: Mimetype: application/xhtml+xml -- add to validator?

From: Bjoern Hoehrmann (derhoermi@gmx.net)
Date: Mon, Jun 04 2001

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    From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
    To: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
    Cc: www-validator@w3.org, www-html@w3.org
    Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 04:32:25 +0200
    Message-ID: <9bfohtscsedvpapnkcd2g4hb6lv8p14fgm@4ax.com>
    Subject: Re: Mimetype:  application/xhtml+xml -- add to validator?
    
    * Terje Bless wrote:
    >>>   As of February 2001, the HTML WG has taken no official position on
    >>>   what MIME media type should be used to describe XHTML 1.0 or any
    >>>   other XHTML based language,
    >>
    >>That's quite wrong, text/xml and application/xml are appropriate.
    >
    >Just to clarify, that wasn't my statement;
    
    However, you later state
    
    | At the moment, XHTML does not exist as far as MIME is concerned, except
    | insofar as it conforms to the backwards compatibility guidelines; in which
    | case it should be labelled as "text/html" and validate as such.
    
    As wrong as the ID... :-) EOT.
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