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[Jeremie Miller] > I'm wondering what everyone else thinks about this issue. When a > server-side solution is used to dynamically modify XML content into > HTML so existing browsers can render it appropriately, what happens > to a browser that _can_ deal with the XML or XML + XSL? Or what > happens to an intelligent spider that understands XML? As far as I > can tell, right now nothing happens, they get HTML just like anyone > else. But so much is lost and it nullifies much of the power of XML > and the meta information it contains. > > I guess I'd just like to see this discussed before it becomes a > problem. I suppose something simple like this in the head of the > HTML page would work: <LINK REL="Alternate" TYPE="text/xml" > HREF="realpage.xml"> > > But without any kind of consensus on this or official recommendation > I doubt it would get used. > > Am I missing something, or has this already been discussed? I don't think it needs discussion, just clarification. I would expect the browser to send an Accept-Type header (I think that's the right name) of text/xml;q=1.0,text/html;q=0.9 if it can handle XML. The server shouldn't transform the XML if the browser prefers it to HTML. -Chris -- <!NOTATION SGML.Geek PUBLIC "-//Anonymous//NOTATION SGML Geek//EN"> <!ENTITY crism PUBLIC "-//O'Reilly//NONSGML Christopher R. Maden//EN" "<URL>http://www.oreilly.com/people/staff/crism/ <TEL>+1.617.499.7487 <USMAIL>90 Sherman Street, Cambridge, MA 02140 USA" NDATA SGML.Geek> xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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