Posted by Andy Dingley on 09/19/06 17:23

Dan wrote:

> Jonathan N. Little wrote:
> > That is *XHTML* not *HTML* syntax for single tag elements. Should be:
> >
> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
> > charset=windows-1252">
>
> Though it would be better to get rid of that meta tag altogether

Is there ever a possibility of a <meta> encoding being useful in valid
XHTML ? If it's not UTF, then you must already have made it manifest
from externally to the file, just to keep it as valid XML. Even if
you're on a filesystem and not a web server, you'd be forced to put it
into the XML PI

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