From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:44:35 GMT
Subject: Re: bug with gitweb on kernel.org
Message-ID: <462D52F3.5050508@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <462D4CEC.6010204@zytor.com>

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> 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/>
> 

This might also be useful reading:

http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/faq.html#xhtmldiff

	-hpa