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Re: content type for XHTML fragments

From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:21:59 +0100
To: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>
Cc: www-html@w3.org
Message-ID: <anhns1t62v70jrh962i1eh826bvs1nue27@hive.bjoern.hoehrmann.de>

* Shane McCarron wrote:
>If it were me....  I would include a DOCTYPE and ensure that the 
>fragment was actually legal xml (the example below is not).  Somehting like:
>
>
><!DOCTYPE p
>     PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
>     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd ">
><p>This is <em>really</em> cool</p>
>
>And use a content type of application/xml-external-parsed-entity.

I'd recommend against this as document type declarations are not allowed
in external parsed entities. "this is <em>really</em> cool" on the other
hand is a well-formed external parsed entity.
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Received on Monday, 16 January 2006 16:21:22 GMT
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