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Posted by Sherm Pendley on 07/27/07 18:38
"The Bicycling Guitarist" <Chris@TheBicyclingGuitarist.net> writes:
> "The Bicycling Guitarist" <Chris@TheBicyclingGuitarist.net> wrote in message
> news:bZeqi.291$0J2.122@newsfe03.lga...
>> The htmlhelp online validator used to just check this xml file for How do
>> I fix this? the page is at www.TheBicyclingGuitarist.net/labels.xml It's
>> been unchanged since January 2006. It's the VALIDATOR that has changed how
>> it regards this file. What should I do, please?
>
> I will redo the file using the ICRA label generator and see if that fixes
> the problem.
It won't. The problem is not the contents of the file, the problem is in
the HTTP headers your server is sending, more specifically the "Content-type"
header line.
> Does one need a different server header for individual pages that are not
> html, i.e., xml files?
Yes. Web browsers don't use file extensions to identify file types, they use
the MIME type listed in the "Content-type:" HTTP header. The generic type for
XML is application/xml, but some specific XML application types (XHTML, RSS,
XSLT, etc.) will also have their own specific MIME type.
> Everything on my site is apparently being sent as
> html even if it isn't html.
That's the problem. Your server is telling the validator that the file is
HTML, so it tries to validate it as HTML.
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