- From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 15:19:18 -0000
- To: <public-evangelist@w3.org>
"Brian Kelly" <B.Kelly@ukoln.ac.uk> > Hmm. Have just read section 3.1 in > http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/ > which does not seem to *ban* this MIME type although it's clearly not > recommended: XHTML is only "allowed" to be served as text/html if it's under Appendix C, if someone would like to correct me on that and say Appendix C isn't normative and any old XHTML can be served as text/html then I'll withdraw the criticism. > The document is XHTML 1.0 compliant (append ,validate to the URL) but it's not Appendix C compliant which AIUI is required to be served as text/html (C.7 for example, I didn't bother looking beyond.) Also xhtml 1.0 SHOULD be served as application/xhtml+xml, and I find it hard to explain to people that some SHOULD's are to be ignored, and others are to be obeyed, how is a non-expert supposed to judge which, surely we need to either have all or none? Jim.
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