2009/3/6 Laurens Holst <[email protected]>: > Marcos Caceres schreef: >>> >>> 2. The XHTML mapping should also appear in the file identification table >>> [2]. >> >> What version of XHTML should I be pointing to? 1.0 or 1.1? > > Short version: > > XHTML 1.1. > > Long version: > > The XHTML 1.0 spec has some interesting informative prose in section 4, > “differences with HTML 4”, but that is probably repeated somewhere in HTML 5 > (and generally common sense). The Appendix C HTML Compatibility Guidelines > and the optional text/html MIME type do not apply in this case. > > XHTML 1.1 is XHTML 1.0 expressed using XHTML Modularization (something that > is unfortunately lost in HTML5, it seems), and in addition to some minor > modifications removes all the deprecated transitional stuff. As we all know, > just because XHTML 1.1 removes the deprecated elements doesn’t mean that UAs > no longer need to support it, but for authoring it seems good practice. > > Neither specification can be used stand-alone by the way; XHTML 1.0 > references HTML4 and XHTML 1.1 references XHTML Modularization which > references XHTML 1.0. > > ~Laurens >
Done. Thanks for the explanation. I'll upload the new draft to CVS later today. -- Marcos Caceres http://datadriven.com.au
