On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 06:48 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Surely any conforming user agent should ignore any markup that it does

No, user agents don't ignore markup that is not specified in the DOCTYPE. It 
generates (or should) a parse error. Most web sites don't serve XHTML 
correctly as "application/xhtml+xml" because one browser by a very large US 
software manufacturer doesn't parse this MIME type. 

If you want to see examples try:

http://www.bathurst-tafe.nsw.edu.au/~steve/index.htm is text/html

and

http://www.bathurst-tafe.nsw.edu.au/~steve/index.xhtml is 
application/xhtml+xml

When using Windows & IE6, for the second link, Windows will try to open the 
page in another application (usually Dreamweaver if installed). These are 
both served by Apache from the same directory.

-- 
Regards,

Steve
Bathurst Computer Solutions
URL: www.bathurstcomputers.com.au
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mobile: 0407 224 251
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