AltaVista's displays "<?xml" in page description

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AltaVista's displays "<?xml" in page description

luma

11:02 am on Sep 7, 2002 (gmt 0)

I noticed AltiVista is having problems with HTML docs that use a xml declaration at its beginning:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

When using the "Webmaster Search" to check for links to my site, I get the following description for above dcoument:

xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Opera Resources. Home. Who is Phil? What is this

Noticed this on two different servers. Both deliver "Content-Type: text/html" HTTP headers. One file is called index.xhtml the other link.html.

jeremy goodrich

4:30 pm on Sep 13, 2002 (gmt 0)

Sounds like they might need to upgrade their HTML interpretation routines in their indexers.

Thanks for the heads up. Most of my stuff is fairly low tech, so I'm not going to have that problem, but for cutting edge folks, that'll be an issue.

I guess that's why some always do sites built for the lowest common denominator - that would be AV, right? :) j/k