RFC 3236 (rfc3236) - Page 1 of 8

The 'application/xhtml+xml' Media Type

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Network Working Group                                           M. Baker
Request for Comments: 3236                              Planetfred, Inc.
Category: Informational                                         P. Stark
                                          Ericsson Mobile Communications
                                                            January 2002


                 The 'application/xhtml+xml' Media Type

Status of this Memo

   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  It does
   not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of this
   memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2002).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

   This document defines the 'application/xhtml+xml' MIME media type for
   XHTML based markup languages; it is not intended to obsolete any
   previous IETF documents, in particular RFC 2854 which registers
   'text/html'.

1. Introduction

   In 1998, the W3C HTML working group began work on reformulating HTML
   in terms of XML 1.0 [XML] and XML Namespaces [XMLNS].  The first part
   of that work concluded in January 2000 with the publication of the
   XHTML 1.0 Recommendation [XHTML1], the reformulation for HTML 4.01
   [HTML401].

   Work continues in the Modularization of XHTML Recommendation
   [XHTMLM12N], the decomposition of XHTML 1.0 into modules that can be
   used to compose new XHTML based languages, plus a framework for
   supporting this composition.

   This document only registers a new MIME media type,
   'application/xhtml+xml'.  It does not define anything more than is
   required to perform this registration.









Baker & Stark                Informational
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