- From: Nikita The Spider The Spider <nikitathespider@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 21:15:53 -0400
- To: "W3C Validator Community" <www-validator@w3.org>
Hi, I'm trying to understand the validator's logic for ignoring the http-equiv charset declaration in documents delivered as application/xhtml+xml. I get an encoding of UTF-8 when validating this file: http://NikitaTheSpider.com/boneyard/temp/meta-test-xhtml-as-xml.xhtml And ISO-8859-5 when validating this file: http://NikitaTheSpider.com/boneyard/temp/meta-test-xhtml-as-html.html They're the same except for the media type. The former is delivered as application/xhtml+xml, the latter as text/html. In neither case is the encoding declared in the HTTP header, but both files contain an XHTML doctype and a META http-equiv statement that declares the encoding to be ISO-8859-5. Is this logic based on the last paragraph in section 3.3 here? http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/#application-xml Thanks -- Philip http://NikitaTheSpider.com/ Whole-site HTML validation, link checking and more
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