From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:18:52 GMT
Subject: Re: bug with gitweb on kernel.org
Message-ID: <462D4CEC.6010204@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <1177294925.24896.48.camel@localhost.localdomain>

J.H. wrote:
> 
> Well the only difference in the pages being served is the mime type
> application/html vs. application/xhtml+xml.  Does anyone know the
> original impetus to using application/xhtml+xml (despite the fact that
> it's technically the correct choice) vs. just using application/html for
> everything?  I'm sure there was a good reason behind it and I'd rather
> know what that reason was before I got changing things
> 

Presumably the motivation is so you know ahead of time that you can 
invoke an XML parser rather than an SGML/HTML parser.

Note: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/ states that text/html is 
considered acceptable for HTML-compatible XHTML 1.0 but no other version 
of XHTML 1.0.  One of the main issues with making XHTML 1.0-compatible 
is to make sure there is a space before the final / in the last 
singleton: <foo /> rather than <foo/>

	-hpa