I don't kow the answer to this question but I just wanted to clarify that XML *does not* require "lowercase only". XML *is* case sensitive so that in XML <p></P> would not be valid, but <p></p> and <P></P> are.
On 18/12/2009, at 7:07 AM, Stuart Foulstone wrote: > > It might be that xml requires lowercase only and that the problem is the > "H" in the id "div_Heading". > > > On Thu, December 17, 2009 8:41 am, Grant Bailey wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I've recently started serving my web pages as xml pages using the MIME >> type application/xhtml+xml rather than text/css as previously. This >> works fine as my pages were already xhtml compliant, with one exception: >> my external CSS stylesheets are no longer honoured by any browser to the >> extent that they select ID attributes. >> >> For example: >> >> [XHTML] >> <div id="div_Heading"> >> <h1>Survival: the basics</h1> >> </div> >> >> [CSS] >> #div_Heading { >> border: thin black solid; >> } >> >> If I serve my page as text/css the border appears as expected but when >> the page is served as application/xhtml+xml, no border is visible. There >> is only one ID named div_Heading in the document and the document itself >> validates. >> >> Could someone please advise me what might be going wrong as I have been >> unable to find anything of assistance on the web or in the WSG forums. >> >> Many thanks and regards, >> >> Grant Bailey >> >> >> >> >> ******************************************************************* >> List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm >> Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm >> Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org >> ******************************************************************* >> >> > > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************