Re: XHTML vs. <meta>-only encoding declarations

* Terje Bless wrote:
>>The MarkUp Validator gives no errors / warnings / whatever, it just
>>tells the document is valid. The CSS Validator will treat the document
>>as UTF-8 encoded XML document and throw an error for the bad UTF-8
>>sequence. At least one of the validators should be changed to get
>>consistent results. Which and how?
>
>Given the Content-Type of text/html, I would say the CSS Validator is in error
>here and should be amended to either pay attention to the <meta> value or use
>the HTTP defaulting rules (depending on what your position on the HTTP vs.
>HTML vs. MIME defaulting rules is).
>
>Granted XML rules suggest UTF-8 or -16 for this case, but as it's served as
>text/html -- e.g. Appendix C rules -- these do not, IMO, apply.

But the MarkUp Validator honors the XML declaration in such documents...

Received on Friday, 4 July 2003 16:41:50 UTC