Re: bug with gitweb on kernel.org

J.H. wrote:

Well the only difference in the pages being served is the mime type
application/html vs. application/xhtml+xml.  Does anyone know the
original impetus to using application/xhtml+xml (despite the fact that
it's technically the correct choice) vs. just using application/html for
everything?  I'm sure there was a good reason behind it and I'd rather
know what that reason was before I got changing things

Presumably the motivation is so you know ahead of time that you can 
invoke an XML parser rather than an SGML/HTML parser.

Note: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/ states that text/html is 
considered acceptable for HTML-compatible XHTML 1.0 but no other version 
of XHTML 1.0.  One of the main issues with making XHTML 1.0-compatible 
is to make sure there is a space before the final / in the last 
singleton: <foo /> rather than <foo/>

	-hpa