> Atom processors need to know how to construct a full XHTML 1.x > document from the Atom entry if they co-operate with an XHTML 1.x > processing module that wants to see full documents.
It seems that... only extremely few of atom processors can do so at the moment... (Actually I am not sure if there is any) Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 and Opera 9.1.8653 all fails to generate a full XHTML 1.x document. Office shows a HTML document with <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";><img ... /></p></div>. Thunderbird is better... at least... does not have any xmlns=""... but XHTML's elements... such as <br />, <img ... />... still exists... Opera has <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd";> in its generated source... with XHTML's elements like Thunderbird... It seems that... even type="xhtml"... is lacking support from processors. Franklin Tse -----Original Message----- From: Henri Sivonen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 05:28 To: Tse Shing Chi ((Franklin/Whale)) Cc: atom-syntax@imc.org Subject: Re: Forward Compatibility On Nov 20, 2006, at 17:47, Tse Shing Chi ((Franklin/Whale)) wrote: >> I understand your not wanting to put a complete XHTML 2.0 document >> inside atom:content or atom:summary, but since DIV isn't supposed to >> be the root element of an XHTML 2.0 document, omitting the rest of >> the document violates at least the "spirit" of the Atom spec...though >> we didn't use normative language where it says "normally" to actually >> prohibit it. > > But div is not the root element of XHTML 1.x as well. It isn't, but XHTML 1.x as type='xhtml' is a special case in Atom, so Atom processors need to know how to construct a full XHTML 1.x document from the Atom entry if they co-operate with an XHTML 1.x processing module that wants to see full documents. Using an XHTML 1.x fragment with type='application/xhtml+xml' would not be proper. -- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
