[Zope3-dev] Re: XML header and TAL interpretor

[Tonico Strasser]

Philipp von Weitershausen schrieb:
>>>Ah, good. It wasn't at all clear that you actually supported the
>>>proposal :).
>>
>>Yes, if it's still possible to trigger HTML mode. But what about
>>backwards compatibility if we make XML the default mode?
> 
> 
> Well, the namespace stuff would probably account for a major breakage.
> Thus, over the span of two Zope releases, XML mode could be forgiveful
> when people forget to register namespace declarations. Of course, it
> would render deprecation warnings.
> 
> I can't imagine a smooth transition for the other "features" of HTML
> mode because they are like on/off switches. Either you convert <br/> to
> <br /> or you don't. Same with <script ...></script> vs. <script ... />
> and the other things.

I ask because I don't know: if I serve a ZPT page in Zope 3 in XML mode, 
which mime type is sent to the browser? Is this independent of the ZTP 
XML/HTML mode?

Tonico