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Re: XHTML & application/xml?

From: UKuser <spidercc21@-----.--.-->
To: NULL
Date: 1/31/2009 3:30:00 AM
On Jan 23, 6:02=A0pm, Martin Honnen <mahotr...@yahoo.de> wrote:
> UKuser wrote:
> > Can I ask a simple (but maybe stupid) question. Why was the
> > application/xhtml+xml MIME type developed and why don't you just serve
> > it up as application/xml? It works in most browsers so is surely
> > better than text/html.
>
> You first question application/xhtml+xml compared to application/xml.
> Then you compare to text/html. I don't understand what you want to say.
> application/xhtml+xml is for XHTML 1.x documents, text/html for HTML
> documents and for XHTML 1.0 documents following thehttp://www.w3.org/TR/x=
html1/#guidelinesguidelines.
> Seehttp://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/
>
> And IE 6/7 do not support rendering XHTML documents served as
> application/xml, they simply display the document tree.
>
> --
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Martin Honnen
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

What i mean is - if XHTML is XML why did they need a new media type?


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