On Thursday 2003-04-03 14:41 +0200, Pavel Hlavnicka wrote: > Sorry I bothered you. One more question (and I do not expect you to > tell: "wow, what a nice idea, let's change it!" :) Why mime type wins > over the DTD declaration (and even over the <?xml?> pragma)? Isn't the > <?xml?> prolog enough to tell, ok, this is a xml file?
That's what the HTML working group wants: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2000Sep/0024.html (See the quoted message there for some of the disadvantages of each method of telling whether something is XHTML.) -David -- L. David Baron <URL: http://dbaron.org/ >
