Posted by Andy Dingley on 08/28/07 23:36

On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 09:28:50 +0100, "mrcakey" <nospam@spamispoo.com>
wrote:

>Am I doing something wrong then? I changed the content-type value for the
>index page to xml on the site I'm building for my friend
>
>http://www.ladolcevita.org.uk/

You only changed the embedded <meta>, which is over-ridden by the HTTP
content-type header:

HTTP/1.x 200 OK
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:33:38 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.33
Last-Modified: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 08:22:02 GMT
Etag: "1ca400d-f03-46cfe6aa"
Content-Length: 3843
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html
X-Pad: avoid browser bug

So you're still using text/html overall


> it still works fine as far as I can see. Even in IE6.

Change the header properly and it'll break in IE


Also, if you have to embed a comment like "Simon, start editing here and
remember to use tags", then well-formed XML just isn't going to last 5
minutes. Stick with HTML, you'll get better error recovery.

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