Lachlan Hunt wrote:
Perhaps, theoretically, it may be XML. But practically speaking, using an XHTML DOCTYPE, xmlns attribute and/or XML declaration is virtually irrelevant, and documents served as text/html will be handled as tag soup, not XML. So for all intents and purposes, such documents should be considered to be HTML.
In a typical browser, yes. However I routinely download such pages with non-browser-tools based on XML parsers; and there the results are quite different. In these contexts, the XML-nature of these pages is very useful to me.
-- Elliotte Rusty Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED] Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
