Webunity | Gilles van den Hoven schrieb:
> I've noticed that when i add some XHTML tags like this; <br />
> it is added as <br> even though i have the correct doctype (according to 
> ffx).
> 
> Anybody else seen this?

Hi Gilles,

yes, as long as you serve "XHTML" as text/html it is actually HTML with 
these slashes where they don't belong. Doctype doesn't matter at all, 
mime-type matters.

For HTML the recommended mime-type is "text/html", for XHTML it is 
"application/xhtml+xml".

Here's an overview with recommendations what to use when:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/#media-types

If you use the text/html mime-type the browser will use its html (tag 
soup) parser for building the DOM tree.

I'm using XHTML as XML on my site for instance. Go here: 
http://stilbuero.de, right click (with Firefox), choose "View Page Info" 
and you will see "application/xhtml+xml" at Type.

IE doesn't support that mime-type though, that is why more and more 
people argue XHTML is dead and switch back to HTML. Googling "XHTML as 
XML" should give you tons of information on that topic.


-- Klaus

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