Re: Error in XHTML 1.0 Second Edition spec

In a programming sense, HTTP is lower level than HTML. In terms of
authority, however, HTTP has more authority than HTML; it is on a higher
level of authority than HTML. HTTP encoding determines the encoding unless
it has not been set and there is no default, which means the browser then
relies on the HTML. HTTP overrides the HTML in the sense that the HTML is
not even considered.