Content–Type for XML/XSL Jun03 '05

.htaccess file

Here’s the contents of my .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on RewriteRule !\.(xml|xsl|gif|jpg|css|js|txt)$ /home/username/path_to_index_file.php AddType php-cgi .html .htm

Notice the xml and xsl rewrite rules (among the others), which tells the rewrite engine to redirect every file except ones with those extensions.

Content–Type header

Here’s my Content–Type header, in my index file:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

Every file, beside the ones with extensions from above, gets re–directed to my index file, which contains the Content–Type header from above.

XML treated as HTML

However, it doesn’t seem to be working properly, because XML or XSL files are still being re–directed to my index file, and I don’t want them to be.

My XML or XSL files are being treated as text/html, which inhibits them from being displayed, or rendered properly.

Does anyone know the appropriate Content–Type for an XML or XSL file?

Categories: Apache , Web Development , XHTML

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