[thelist] xhtml + custom tags

[Nemesis]

Joshua Olson wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Nemesis" <nemesis at nemesis1.f2o.org>
> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 7:38 PM
> 
> 
>>>I did suggest creating a custom DTD so that the page validation would
> 
> pass.
> 
>>>Does using a custom DTD mandate a switch of the using page's extension?
> 
> If
> 
>>>so, why?
>>>
>>
>>Joshua,
>>To me it would. Since you are making an attempt at a custom dtd for xml
>>tags you would be using xhtml1.1. xhtml 1.1 requires it to be served
>>with application/xhtml+xml
>>
>>http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/#summary
> 
> 
> Gary,
> 
> I was referring to this:
> 
> "If that you do that you would need to run the proper mime type xml+xhtml
> and extension. "
> 
> Specifically, you said that you'd need to use a "proper" extension.  Then
> you followed up with a link:
> 
> http://home1.gte.net/res1hvtm/index.xhtml
> 
> My question is: does using a custom DTD mandate a different extension?  If
> so, why?

Since you required to serve it as application/xhtml+xml would that not 
take mime type text/html out of the picture. what would be the use of 
requiring application/xhtml+xml if you are going to really serve it a html?

Gary

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