Chrome doesn't render xhtml?

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Open local xhtml files in chrome, however, chrome treats it as XML files, and won't render it as HTML.

I don't want to change all my *.xhtml file extension to .html, so is there any workaround?

EXAMPLE

a.xhtml:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Example</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <b>Hello</b>, 
        <i>World</i>!
    </body>
</html>

edited Apr 17 '11 at 5:55

asked Apr 17 '11 at 5:39

Xie Jilei
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	Can you pastebin an example xhtml file? I did a test on my computer and google chrome opened up my xhtml file without issue. Perhaps you have the wrong DOCTYPE declared? – OmnipotentEntity Apr 17 '11 at 5:45
	I've added the example, thanks. – Xie Jilei Apr 17 '11 at 5:56

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Because you declared XHTML-1.0 strict your html tag needs an xml namespace:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

A few other validation issues: you need a character set declaration and your text needs a <p> around it.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
        <title>Example</title>
    </head>
    <body>
      <p>
        <b>Hello</b>, 
        <i>World</i>!
      </p>
    </body>
</html>

answered Apr 17 '11 at 6:20

OmnipotentEntity
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