Last Updated: $Date: 2005/11/03 00:48:08 $
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| media type | text/html | application/xhtml+xml | text/xml | application/xml |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| xml-stylesheet PI and link | recognized as HTML | recognized as XML, XHTML-specific semantics were not recognized but the type selector in style sheets matched case-insensitively | recognized as XML, XHTML-specific semantics were not recognized but the type selector in style sheets matched case-insensitively | recognized as XML, XHTML-specific semantics were not recognized but the type selector in style sheets matched case-insensitively |
| link only | recognized as HTML | recognized as XML, linked style sheet was not recognized and document tree was rendered | recognized as XML, linked style sheet was not recognized and document tree was rendered | recognized as XML, linked style sheet was not recognized and document tree was rendered |
| xml-stylesheet PI only | recognized as HTML, xml-stylesheet PI was not recognized | recognized as XML, XHTML-specific semantics were not recognized but the type selector in style sheets matched case-insensitively | recognized as XML, XHTML-specific semantics were not recognized but the type selector in style sheets matched case-insensitively | recognized as XML, XHTML-specific semantics were not recognized but the type selector in style sheets matched case-insensitively |
| without xmlns | recognized as HTML | recognized as XML, parsing failed due to the omitted namespace declaration | recognized as XML, parsing failed due to the omitted namespace declaration | recognized as XML, parsing failed due to the omitted namespace declaration |
| without DOCTYPE | recognized as HTML | recognized as XML, XHTML-specific semantics were not recognized but the type selector in style sheets matched case-insensitively | recognized as XML, XHTML-specific semantics were not recognized but the type selector in style sheets matched case-insensitively | recognized as XML, XHTML-specific semantics were not recognized but the type selector in style sheets matched case-insensitively |
| without DOCTYPE and xmlns | recognized as HTML | recognized as XML, XHTML-specific semantics were not recognized but the type selector in style sheets matched case-insensitively and inline style (incorrectly) worked | recognized as XML, XHTML-specific semantics were not recognized but the type selector in style sheets matched case-insensitively and inline style (incorrectly) worked | recognized as XML, XHTML-specific semantics were not recognized but the type selector in style sheets matched case-insensitively and inline style (incorrectly) worked |
| Broken XHTML | recognized as HTML, well-formedness error was not detected | showed blank page | showed blank page | showed blank page |
| HTML 4 | recognized as HTML | failed correctly while parsing the DTD | failed correctly while parsing the DTD | failed correctly while parsing the DTD |