Re: More on XHTML as text/html

>>> Since the only form of XHTML  permitted by RFC 2854 to be served as
>>> text/html is the Appendix C-defined subset of XHTML 1.0, and since
>>> documents conforming to one of the XHTML 1.0 DTDs cannot include
>>> namespaces, it follows that content including namespaces cannot be
>>> served as text/html.
>>
>> You're missing a step. You need to show where Appendix C requires the
>> document strictly conform to the XHTML 1.0 DTDs.
>
> I explain this in:
>    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2002Nov/0093.html
>
> text/html is only for _valid_ XHTML 1.0, namespaces make XHTML 1.0
> documents invalid. Ergo text/html can't be used for XHTML 1.0.

I only see a reference to a non-normative NOTE there.

> In any case, the lack of any Web browsers that support namespaces in
> text/html makes the entire argument reasonably moot. In the real world,
> you can't do it.

I don't need browser support; the namespaces are for other readers.
-- 
Aaron Swartz [http://www.aaronsw.com/]

Received on Monday, 20 January 2003 12:27:56 UTC