- From: John Foliot <foliot@wats.ca>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:12:42 -0800
- To: <gawds_discuss@yahoogroups.com>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Christopher Hoffman wrote: > > application/xhtml+xml > > From RFC2046: "application -- some other kind of data, typically > either uninterpreted binary data or information to be processed by an > application." That pretty much defines a Web page as far as I can > see. > > And if I recall correctly, application/xhtml-xml is the W3C's > recommended media time for XHTML documents. > > The definition for multi-part isn't quite so easy to grasp on > perusing the RFC. It seems to involve discreet pieces of data with > very specific boundaries, and I don't think Web pages really fit into > that definition. > Meanwhile, on another list Tony Crockford wrote: > > <meta name="DC.format" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> > > ? > > try this: > > http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcdot/ > > and see: > http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/text/ > IANA | Text Media-Types > > where html is listed. Gentlemen, thanks. It seems that you are both right in a way - it depends on the DTD (go figure): "text/html" for HTML 4.01, and "application/xhtml-xml" for XHTML 1.0. Tony, thanks for that link to the DCdot site: I recall seeing it before, but had forgotten about it. It's pretty much what I was looking for - thanks! JF
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