This example is part of the article Add Multimedia to your Web documents, part 2.
We can decide to send a raw text file, with text/plain
, to avoid to have to cut and paste the source code of your program or html web page in a pre
and write things like that which are difficult to update:
<h4>An html head example</h4> <pre> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Your Title</title> </head> </pre>
Example: inserting some python code
<object data="http://example.org/source/wiki2xhtml.py" type="text/plain"> <p>Source code of <a href="/source/wiki2xhtml.py">wiki2xhtml</a></p> </object>
Another example: presenting HTML source code
<object data="http://example.org/source/example.html" type="text/plain"> <p>Source code of the <a href="/source/example.html">HTML file</a></p> </object>
Something to be careful of: the MIME-type sent by the server has precedence over the MIME-type given in the object element. If you don't have access to the configuration of your Web server, you could use a copy of your HTML file with a .txt extension, such as example.html.txt. Usually webservers are configured to send .txt files as text/plain; otherwise you can locally configure it to be sent as text/plain. For example, you can achieve this with a .htaccess file in Apache.