"Daniel Schierbeck" <daniel.schierbeck@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Anne van Kesteren wrote:

>> I also don't see why would want to send it over the wire as 
>> application/xhtml+xml.
>
> Because it's not SVG/whatever. It *is* XHTML.

but it is not an XHTML document.  It cannot standalone as one, so it seems 
to make little sense to send it as the same type as a standalone XHTML 
document?

Jim.