Abhishek Reddy — Mon, 23 Aug 2004 10:38:10 +0000

application/xhtml+xml is the correct mime-type, which only Mozilla understands, I think. If you do use this correct mime-type, your code will have to be strictly valid.

text/html works for all other browsers.

You can use a bit of server-side code to detect if the HTTP request is from an-XHTML compatible client (i.e. Mozilla), and then serve up a slightly altered version, and send tag soup for others. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/03/19/dive-into-xml.html

andy206uk — Mon, 23 Aug 2004 09:30:38 +0000

Yes... you still need to output as text/html

I believe technically it should be something like text/xml but the older browsers don't fully support xml (which is what xhtml is) and won't be able to correctly parse the document or something like that.

Try to avoid inline styles in your documents (ie ) and put anything thats related to position, colour, style etc in the css. Lots of html attributes such as align, bgcolor and things like that have been depreciated in xhtml hence the errors.

KarenArt — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 21:38:21 +0000

Hola Ken!

Well I've only worked with xhtml a couple of times, but the one thing I learned is xhtml is no harder than regular html as long as you remember to close all your tags and keep things in lowercase.

So..... something like becomes and becomes
Just remember to close all your tags (including the meta tags) and you'll be fine. Also remember to use lowercase. is wrong. is right.

I'm not sure about the content type. I thought is would still be text/html. Now I'm all confused.
You do want the right doctype though...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

Check out the page at http://www.w3.org/International/articles/serving-xhtml/

Hopefully someone smarter than me will come along (you shouldn't have to wait too long for that) and answer your questions.