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ISPs that refuse to support text/xml

  • From: heikki@n... (Heikki Toivonen)
  • To: xml-dev@l...
  • Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:31:57 -0800

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It appears that there are some ISP that do not have text/xml configured 
into their webservers. This means that users cannot create XML pages and 
expect them to be handled properly by different browsers.


I know of at least one ISP that, after a user requested they add 
text/xml, replied they do not and will not support text/xml. Apparently 
the techsupport has misconceptions of what XML really is. I don't see 
the any big difficulties or dangers associated with this. What, if any, 
are the potential difficulties and dangers involved in changing the 
webserver configurations to support text/xml?


Does anyone have experience with this situation? Any comments from some prominent figure
that could be sent to such ISPs to change their policy?


This worries me for several reasons. Being the purist I am I'd rather see HTML disappear 
and being replaced with XML. On a more practical note this does not bode well for XHTML.

-- 
  Heikki Toivonen


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