Kepler Gelotte wrote:
> Ø      as text/html seems a little quixotic. If your document can't be
> served as application/xhtml+xml then what's the point?


> There is also another reason to use XHTML instead of HTML and it does
> not involve browsers. When representing your code (xHTML) as XML, it can
> also be viewed as data. A perfect example of this is screen scrapers
> which read your web pages to pull specific content out of them.

Given that it is easier to use an HTML parser then it is to trust page
authors serving XHTML as text/html to produce something that is well
formed - that isn't much of an advantage.


-- 
David Dorward                               <http://dorward.me.uk/>



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