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Bug 752 - XML documents cause fall back to HTML 4.01
Summary: XML documents cause fall back to HTML 4.01
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Validator
Classification: Unclassified
Component: check (show other bugs)
Version: 0.6.7
Hardware: Other other
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Terje Bless
QA Contact: qa-dev tracking
URL: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=htt...
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Blocks: 856
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Reported: 2004-05-28 04:56 UTC by Bj
Modified: 2005-02-04 19:02 UTC (History)
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Description Bj 2004-05-28 04:56:14 UTC 
E.g.,

http://validator.w3.org/check?
uri=http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/CSS3/Selectors/20040510/xhtml/tests/css3-
modsel-57.xml

A text/xml delivered XML document, yet the validator insists on falling back to 
HTML 4.01 Transitional which isn't useful.
Comment 1 Terje Bless 2005-02-04 19:02:13 UTC 
Fixed in CVS. Content-Types are now taken into consideration when determining
parse mode, and text/xml (among others) will now trigger XML mode in the
absence of a DOCTYPE Declaration (the sole determinant previously).