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From: Thomas Jedenfelt
Date: Jul 1, 2005 1:18AM

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Pickering"
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:50:03 -0700
>
> XHTML 1.0 documents served as Content-type text/html
> are mostly rendered as HTML and are treated as
> "tag soup" by compliant Browsers.
>

Regarding the browser Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE),
the article 'Serving XHTML 1.0' [1] suggests omitting the XML declaration to avoid 'tag soup':

QUOTE
Here are the options. Obviously, if your document contains no constructs that are affected by the difference between standards vs. quirks mode this is a non-issue. If, on the other hand, that is not the case, you will have to add workarounds to your CSS to overcome the differences, or omit the XML declaration.
UNQUOTE

[1]
http://www.w3.org/International/articles/serving-xhtml/

Regards,
Thomas Jedenfelt

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