Re: MSIE6 bug: <?xml...> as first line

• From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
• Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 02:54:10 +0200
• To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
• Cc: www-validator-css@w3.org
• Message-ID: <3f1e7e5d.123059450@smtp.bjoern.hoehrmann.de>

* Ian Hickson wrote:
>On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, CJ wrote:
>>
>> Question: Is it *absolutely* mandatory that the <?xml...> be the first
>> line (as the validator asserts)
>
>Yes; however you can do away with the XML declaration altogether if you
>put the character set declaration into the Content-Type line returned by
>the server.

This will actually not help since unlike the MarkUpValidator the CSS
validator does not read/use the charset parameter for text/html
delivered XHTML documents...

Received on Wednesday, 2 July 2003 21:25:38 UTC