- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 08:02:52 -0500
Lachlan Hunt wrote: >> I'm not sure why that bothers you. As long as things are well-formed, >> what's the harm? > > text/html *does not* enforce well-formedness and *never will*. That's > the problem! application/xhtml+xml doesn't enforce well-formedness either. That's the job of the parser. If a server sends text/html, and the resulting character stream parses as well-formed, then it is well-formed. If it doesn't, it isn't. What matters more is what the stream is, not what the server says it is. (Yes, I know there are a few details about character encoding detection that come into play here. That doesn't change the point, though.) -- ?Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo at metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
Received on Sunday, 5 November 2006 05:02:52 UTC