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Asked: 2026-05-26T22:33:41+00:00

I’m trying to render XML+XSL 2.0 in browser, returning .xml pages with application/xml content

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I’m trying to render XML+XSL 2.0 in browser, returning .xml pages with application/xml content type and .xsl pages with text/xml. Safari is complaining for the main document: “Resource interpreted as document but transferred with MIME type application/xml.” (but keeps rendering everything just fine).

I want to get rid of this warning message. What content-types should be used for the XML document?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’ve had success using text/xml with the stylesheet as text/xsl (or perhaps this is OK as text/xml as you have it working). text/xsl is widely recognized, but not "official" (as far as I understand it).

    According to RFC 3023: "If an XML document that is, the unprocessed, source XML document is readable by casual users, text/xml is preferable to application/xml. MIME user agents (and web user agents) that do not have explicit support for text/xml will treat it as text/plain, for example, by displaying the XML MIME entity as plain text. application/xml is preferable when the XML MIME entity is unreadable by casual users."

    See https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3023#page-16

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