Posted by Andy Dingley on 09/19/06 20:53

Alan J. Flavell wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Andy Dingley wrote:
>
> > Is there ever a possibility of a <meta> encoding being useful in valid
> > XHTML ?
>
> Only in 1.0 Appendix C, and then it's only there for HTML
> compatibility. Even there, it's not a necessity.

I'm not sure whether it's "not a necessity" or "only possibly useful in
the face of deliberate bad practice".

You can't store XHTML Appendix C as a file, it's only _possible_ as a
HTTP document. If it's a file, then it reverts to plain XML. So in
either case, you _can_ send the appropriate header, or you're back to
being forced to use the XML PI.

You might guess that I've been wrangling several MB of badly
misbegotten HTML as local files of late, supposedly an "on-line help
system", extruded from the rump end of an abomination called
"AuthorIt". They're not pretty.

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