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How to set the http-equiv="Content-Type" when writing XHTML documents.

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JProg

JProg

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Hi Everybody,

I have written an xhtml document that looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "<html xmlns=" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/xml; charset=UTF-8" />
.....
.....

When I try to validate this at the W3C I get the following error message:

The HTTP Content-Type header sent by your web browser (unknown) did not contain a "charset" parameter, but the Content-Type was one of the XML text/* sub-types (text/xml). The relevant specification (RFC 3023) specifies a strong default of "us-ascii" for such documents so we will use this value regardless of any encoding you may have indicated elsewhere. If you would like to use a different encoding, you should arrange to have your browser send this new encoding information.

I am wondering how to go about giving the document correct meta information. I need this xhtml document to work in IE6+ and NS7+. If anybody knows how to make the xml declaration and meta data behave could you please let me know?

Thanks for your help.

Regards

David
 
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For all my XHTML strict pages, I use the following, which validates just fine:

Code: 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 Strict//EN" "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">[/URL]
<html xmlns="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"[/URL] lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
	<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
	<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en" />
</head>

Hope this helps,
Dan
 
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And I use:
Code: 
<?php header("Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8"); ?>
and then...
Code: 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">[/URL]
<html xmlns="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"[/URL] xml:lang="en">
Hope this helps.

Pete.


Web Developer & Aptrix / IBM Lotus Workplace Web Content Management (LWWCM) Specialist
w: e: Pete.Raleigh(at)lclimited.co.uk
 
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