268731 - XHTML shown as XML tree

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Per Persson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sv-SE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sv-SE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

XHTML is an application of XML. As such, it should accept <a name="..." /> as a
*closed* empty element.

But for an XHTML web page to be treated as XML it has to be served with
MIME-type application/xhtml+xml. But when it is, Firefox doesn't display it as a
web page, but an XML tree.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a valid XHTML web page
2. Make the web server serve the web page as application/xhtml+xml
3. Browse to the web page
Actual Results:  
The page is shown as an XML tree

Expected Results:  
The page should be shown as a web page

See discussions of bug #268598:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268598

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

If you mean the example you inlined in bug 268598, that's not XHTML. I don't
really know what it is, but without an xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
attribute on the html element, it isn't XHTML.

The forums at http://forums.mozillazine.org/ really are an excellent place to be
sure you are seeing a Firefox/Mozilla bug, before you report it.