Re: XHTML document not implementing HTMLDocument when served as application/xml

Stanimir Stamenkov wrote:
> Is there a reason XHTML documents served as 'Content-Type: 
> application/xml' not to implement the HTMLDocument interface?

Yes: the document is created based on MIME type before parsing begins, so 
there's no way to know that you XML has an XHTML doctype at that point.

> Safari and 
> Opera seem to create an HTMLDocument instance when served an XHTML 
> document that way.

Do they also do that if the doctype is not XHTML?  Or if the documentElement is 
not in the XHTML namespace?

-Boris