Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 01/23/06 20:01

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Ben Measures wrote:

> From <http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/>:
> > In summary, 'application/xhtml+xml' SHOULD be used for XHTML Family
> > documents, and the use of 'text/html' SHOULD be limited to
> > HTML-compatible XHTML 1.0 documents.
>
> SHOULD != MUST .

It doesn't just mean doing whatever you please, you know.

W3C cites rfc2119 for the meaning of this term.

SHOULD This word, or the adjective "RECOMMENDED", mean that there
may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a
particular item, but the full implications must be understood and
carefully weighed before choosing a different course.

So we'd expect you to explain the "full implications", and your
careful weighting of them, before you'd get away with "choosing a
different course".

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