Re: validator does NOT validate XHTML 1.0

Thanasis Kinias wrote:

> [in reference to a browser supposedly refusing to render pages that
> don't explicity set the xmlns attribute]
>
>> Of course, the statement above is true only if the document is declared with
>> a MIME type such as "application/xhtml+xml", and this behaviour makes sense
>> in that case.
>
> I don't follow.  You mean that IFF content-type is application/xhtml+xml,

...or "text/xml" or "application/xml", yes.

> the brokenness is correct?

There's no brokenness. Without a proper namespace declaration, how should an
XML user agent determine that "p" is a paragraph?

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Received on Tuesday, 20 August 2002 06:07:56 UTC