Re: text/html for xml extensions of XHTML

On Wed, 2 May 2001, Aaron Swartz wrote:
>
> I have an HTML document that is well-formed XML. I want it to be read by my
> grandma who runs Netscape 3.0. I must send it as text/html so that she can
> read it with Netscape's HTML parser. Netscape 7.0, which understands XML
> just fine, realizes that my document is XML and thus parses it with its XML
> parser. Everybody wins. Where is the issue, Ian?

In the case you describe, you would not be able to tell the difference
between Netscape 7.0 handling the document as text/html, and Netscape 7.0
handling the document as text/xml.

So clearly that is not the case you care about.

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