Re: XHTML served as application/xml+xhtml

Hello Steven,

To be more specific, I was (maybe among others) raising questions,
and in particular:

- Does an XHTML document served as application/xhtml+xml mean
   that I always need a stylesheet, for every aspect of styling?
- Are user agents accepting XHTML served as application/xhtml+xml
   not supposed to have a default styles sheet for XHTML? Are they
   not allowed to have a default stylesheet for XHTML? Do they in
   practice not have a default stylesheet for XHTML?

The assumption is that if there is a default stylesheet, and if
the user agent supports bidirectionality, then the default stylesheet
will contain the necessary rules for mapping bidi XHTML attributes
(and elements) to display behavior (or the user agent will in any
way act as if it contained these rules in its default stylesheet.

Regards,    Martin.

At 16:23 03/07/17 +0100, Richard Ishida wrote:

>Hi Steven,
>
>Following our discussion last Friday I proposed to amend the Q&A at
>http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-bidi-css-markup.html by
>inserting a second para in the section Answer -> XHTML/HTML that reads
>as follows:
>
>======================
>(There is an exception to this rule. If the XHTML is served as
><code>application/xhtml+xml</code>, rather than <code>text/html</code>
>it is treated by the user agent as XML rather than HTML, and so needs
>CSS to map the markup to the appropriate display behaviour, as described
>in '<a href="#xml">General XML-based markup languages</a>' above.)
>
>  ======================
>
>Some questions were raised about its validity in our GEO telecon. Would
>you mind casting an eye over this para and letting us know whether it
>looks correct / adequate to you?
>
>Thanks!
>
>RI
>
>============
>Richard Ishida
>W3C
>
>tel: +44 1753 480 292
>http://www.w3.org/International/ http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/

Received on Thursday, 17 July 2003 16:03:55 UTC