Russ wrote:
[quote]
At the risk of being burned at the stake, I think that unless you are willing 
to serve your pages as application/xhtml+xml with content negotiation, then you 
are probably better off staying with HTML 4.01 at this time.
[/quote]

Let me be the first to gather the kindling :-)

The whole MIME debate started with Ian Hickson. Let me summarize his argument: 
If you author bad XHTML and serve it up as HTML, you won't know that you have 
invalid XHTML and you will blame XHTML when you find out. Sorry, this is not a 
valid argument. This is fear mongering.

For more advocacy along the same line from Ian, have a read of this:

http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xslt

This article advocates the use of Python, Perl, JavaScript, C++ and a DOM 
parser to do transformations over XSLT. This clearly shows that Ian's knowledge 
on the subject is academic. Anyone familiar with the benefits of XSLT, will get 
a good laugh from this short article.

Regards,
-Vlad
http://xstandard.com
Standard-compliant XHTML WYSIWYG Editor

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