On 1 Feb 2007, at 15:37, Rob O'Rourke wrote:
If (x)HTML documents when served as text/html are treated as HTML how are the microformats still working? Does this mean microformats will work under an HTML 4.01 doctype?
Microformats are generally parsed absolutely fine in both XHTML and HTML, for one of two reasons:
• Some parsers (such as JavaScript bookmarklets) parse the HTMLDOM with script, after the browser has done its parsing so at that level, it makes no difference whether the document is HTML or XHTML. • Other parsers (such as X2V) use an XSLT stylesheet to convert from XHTML into vcard or icalendar. These first run pages through a tool called Tidy, which converts HTML to well formed XHTML to allow the XSLT to run.
Basically, microformats are easier to parse directly if you use mark- up that validates as XML (the mime type doesn't make a difference in practice), but since open source tools exist that makes switching HTML into XHTML simple, real world parsing is very tolerant.
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