Re: Empty span/div tags in RDFa pages

On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 18:40 +0100, Julian Reschke wrote:
> Which of course is caused by the fact that you simply can't serve
> XHTML as text/html. The media type is authoritative, so recipients
> will treat it as HTML.

I think this is something that is often overstated.

RFC 2854 notes that "different versions [of HTML] are distinguishable by
the DOCTYPE declaration contained within them", so -- assuming that
XHTML is a "version" of HTML, whatever that means -- it is not incorrect
behaviour to detect an XHTML DOCTYPE and perform version-specific
parsing on the content.

I realise that many popular user agents (especially desktop browsers) do
not do this, but that doesn't make it wrong to do so.

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Toby A Inkster
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Received on Monday, 26 October 2009 23:18:53 UTC