Re: Validator complains because it cannot determine validation mode from document type

Karl Dubost wrote:
>
> huh? That would be content sniffing and against Web architecture.
> The mime type has priority and for good reasons.
A media type in a header does indeed take priority... I know this, of 
course.  My point was that, as we all know, lots of XHTML 1 documents 
get served as text/html when in fact they are really well-formed, valid XML.
>
> Imagine you want to serve the source code of this document sending it 
> then as text/plain.  With the above reasoning, it would mean that we 
> do not respect the intent of the author.
>
> If you send it as text/html, it is HTML
> If you send it as application/xhtml+xml it is xml
If you send it as text/html, it *might* be XHTML.  Since we tell people 
they can do that.  So, since we tell them that, we should at least 
provide some way to help them validate things that they serve up as 
that.  Maybe we do this already and I don't know where the control is.


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Received on Thursday, 5 April 2007 22:52:56 UTC