Re: new TAG issue TagSoupIntegration-54

On 10/26/06, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 00:42 -0400, Mark Baker wrote:
> > I don't understand why this is an issue.  The authoritative metadata
> > finding makes it clear that the media type determines how the document
> > is to be interpreted, and nothing in RFC 2854 (text/html) or the HTML
> > family of specifications suggests that running a text/html document
> > through an XML parser would yield anything which meaningfully
> > represents what the sender was trying to convey.
>
> Perhaps you missed this?
>
> [[
>       In addition, [XHTML1]
>       defines a profile of use of XHTML which is compatible with HTML
>       4.01 and which may also be labeled as text/html.
> ]]
>  -- http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2854.txt

Right, I was aware of that, but I meant - and should have said - "an
*arbitrary* text/html document".  Ian's scenario didn't mention
anything about that profile, so I assumed it wasn't in play.

Mark.

Received on Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:10:16 UTC