Posted by Ben Measures on 01/23/06 22:13

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:50:00 -0500, Jonathan N. Little wrote:

> Ben Measures wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 10:14:52 +1100, Mark Parnell wrote:
>>
>>>XHTML 1.1 is not suitable for use on the WWW - it *must* be served as
>>>application/xml+xhtml
>>
>> Not according to the W3C, it doesn't.
>>
>> From <http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/>:
>
> Maybe one should read:
>
> XHTML Frequently Answered Questions
> http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2004/xhtml-faq

I assume you refer to <http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2004/xhtml-faq#mime11>:
> Why is it disallowed to send XHTML 1.1 documents as text/html?
> XHTML 1.1 is pure XML, and only intended to be XML. It cannot reliably
> be sent to legacy browsers. Therefore XHTML 1.1 documents must be sent
> with an XML-related media type, such as application/xhtml+xml.

Clearly you highlight an inconsistency between these two documents.

However, the FAQ is non-normative. Further, the conclusion collapses when
it is observed that neither of the supporting claims are themselves
supported by normative documents.

I'll email the maintainer of the FAQ and post any conclusions here.

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Ben M.

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