Re: [WSG] meta http-equiv

[Marc Greenstock]

Alan Milnes wrote:
The correct content type or MIME type for an XHTML document is
"application/xhtml+xml".
Although I might add internet explorer doesn't understand it so you need
to determine if the users browser accepts it.You can do this in PHP by
writing:
   

::::: SNIP:::::
The suggested method doesn't work when you go to validate your pages, see
the discussion at:
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/03/19/dive-into-xml.html
Alan
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That is because w3c doesn't send the server it's accepted MIME types. 
You can fix this by:

<?php
if(strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT'],"application/xhtml+xml") || 
strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"W3C_Validator"))
   header("Content-type: application/xhtml+xml");
else
   header("Content-type: text/html");
echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"iso-8859-1\"?".">\n";
?>

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