Re: TECH: dumb html question

Mark J. Reed scripsit:

> But in both Mozilla Firebird 0.7 and IE 6.1, not only does this not cause
> &schwa to be recognized, it doesn't even parse correctly.  The >
> that closes the <!ENTITY> tag is interpreted as closing the whole <!DOCTYPE>
> tag, with the result that the ]> appear as content in the page.
This works fine in Firebird if you force XHTML interpretation: for example, if you
use a local file with the extension .xhtml or .xml.

I was apparently wrong to say that Firebird automatically applies the HTML
implicit stylesheet to XHTML files; that works only if they are interpreted
as HTML.  Using an explicit .xml extension blocks this.

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