Article:		The Road to XHTML 2.0: MIME Types
Subject:		Using XML mime types in IE
Date:		2003-03-31 04:53:52
From:		David Carlisle
As An alternative to sending XHTML with an HTML mime type one can send it as text/xml so long as you add a stylesheet PI specifying an identity transform which IE will accept as XHTML-HTML conversion. This is particularly useful if you are using XHTML modularisation to use features that are not available in HTML, for example MathML see http://www.w3.org/Math/XSL for an implemenattion of this. the stylesheets there are complicated by trying to detect available MathML renderes, but the same basic mechanism with a one line identity XSLt transform would work for basic XHTML. Of course you can then extend to do an XHTML2 - HTML XSLT conversion and experiment with XHTML2 in IE6... David

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• Using XML mime types in IE
  2003-04-07 06:57:40 Steven Pemberton [Reply]
  
  "Of course you can then extend to do an XHTML2 - HTML XSLT conversion and experiment with XHTML2 in IE6..."

  
  Actually, you don't need to use XSLT to experiment with XHTML 2.0 in IE; you can do it out of the box, just using some CSS extensions. See

  
  http://w3future.com/weblog/gems/xhtml2.xml

  
  Works with Opera and Mozilla too.