Re: Ignoring meta http-equiv for application/xhtml+xml

On Sun, Apr 06, 2008, Nikita The Spider The Spider wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I'm trying to understand the validator's logic for ignoring the
> http-equiv charset declaration 
> http://NikitaTheSpider.com/boneyard/temp/meta-test-xhtml-as-xml.xhtml
> http://NikitaTheSpider.com/boneyard/temp/meta-test-xhtml-as-html.html

Not sure why the validator (the HTML::Encoding perl module, actually)
reacts differently, but note that your meta is bogus. Should be
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-5">
(and likewise for app/xhtml+xml)

-- 
olivier

Received on Monday, 7 April 2008 02:06:06 UTC