Re: xhtml head info

by "Norman E. Carpenter II" <theacademe(at)yahoo.com>

Date:	Fri, 9 Jul 2004 09:24:47 -0700 (PDT)
To:	Maren Child <maren(at)wordsworth.com.au>, hwg-xml(at)hwg.org
In-Reply-To:	com
	todo: View Thread, Original

This is from the w3 website XHTML section at
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#strict

"An XML declaration is not required in all XML documents;"

The samples there include:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!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>
    <title>Virtual Library</title>
  </head>


Regarding the meta tag, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_9
"a document that wants to set its character encoding explicitly must
include both the XML declaration an encoding declaration and a meta
http-equiv statement"


--
Norman Carpenter

--- Maren Child <maren(at)wordsworth.com.au> wrote:
> Is this correct for the head section of an xhtml document?
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> <head>
> <title>Untitled Document</title>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
> charset=iso-8859-1" />
> </head>
> 
> I've read somewhere that some browsers can't cope with the xml
> version
> statement. I'm working on annual reports for government departments
> and they
> say they still have a significant number of users on netscape 4.7,
> ie5 and
> ie5.5, and even ie3. We use a lot of special characters eg �
> �
> � etc. and I guess the iso-8859-1 is there to make sure they
> will be
> displayed properly?
> 
> Thanks
> Maren
> 
> 
> 



		
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