RE: Microsoft CSS 2.1 Tests: More Chapter 4 comments

Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>
> I missed something (and maybe more). E.g. at-charset-008.xht uses
>
>    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
> charset=windows-1252" />
>
> which is not a way to set the character encoding in an XML document.
> That
> document does not use any characters that need that declaration though
> so
> it can just be removed but if other documents actually require such a
> declaration to work it needs to be moved to the HTTP level or maybe the
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="..."?> level but that does not convert
> well
> to HTML if we use text-based processing.
>

Good catch. I'll do a search over all the files for this particular meta tag and see what I find. This seems like a scenario we need to handle during build time to build the files for HTML, XHTML and XML correctly.

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Thanks,
Arron Eicholz

Received on Wednesday, 22 April 2009 16:22:13 UTC