Hi
Cab someone please explain what the string
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii"?> actually does.

It is automatically added by CC when you run the XHTML conversion tool.

Yet when I look at other XHTML pages eg CSS Garden ZEN which is also XHTML strict I see no such string. Also my HeadFirst book on XHTML does not use it.

Also when I try to validate with it W3C complains that I have a mismatch in my char set between what the XLM declares and what I am using in the meta. If I remove this ?xlm string provided by CC my code validates as XHTML strict !!

So what is this string for - it just seems to screw things up.

Thanks Vincej

Here's some info:
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthr … 393445#q12

It shouldn't be used if you want IE to render the page correctly.

Thanks Cary you are a master ! Curious though why CC should automatically add it. CC could do with adding a wizard around the whole creation of the Doc type.

thanks Vincej