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-Wget can follow links in @sc{html} pages and create local versions of
-remote web sites, fully recreating the directory structure of the
-original site. This is sometimes referred to as ``recursive
+Wget can follow links in @sc{html} and @sc{xhtml} pages and create local
+versions of remote web sites, fully recreating the directory structure of
+the original site. This is sometimes referred to as ``recursive
downloading.'' While doing that, Wget respects the Robot Exclusion
Standard (@file{/robots.txt}). Wget can be instructed to convert the
links in downloaded @sc{html} files to the local files for offline
@cindex .html extension
@item -E
@itemx --html-extension
-If a file of type @samp{text/html} is downloaded and the URL does not
-end with the regexp @samp{\.[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]?}, this option will cause
-the suffix @samp{.html} to be appended to the local filename. This is
-useful, for instance, when you're mirroring a remote site that uses
-@samp{.asp} pages, but you want the mirrored pages to be viewable on
-your stock Apache server. Another good use for this is when you're
-downloading the output of CGIs. A URL like
-@samp{http://site.com/article.cgi?25} will be saved as
+If a file of type @samp{application/xhtml+xml} or @samp{text/html} is
+downloaded and the URL does not end with the regexp
+@samp{\.[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]?}, this option will cause the suffix @samp{.html}
+to be appended to the local filename. This is useful, for instance, when
+you're mirroring a remote site that uses @samp{.asp} pages, but you want
+the mirrored pages to be viewable on your stock Apache server. Another
+good use for this is when you're downloading the output of CGIs. A URL
+like @samp{http://site.com/article.cgi?25} will be saved as
@file{article.cgi?25.html}.
Note that filenames changed in this way will be re-downloaded every time
you re-mirror a site, because Wget can't tell that the local
@file{@var{X}.html} file corresponds to remote URL @samp{@var{X}} (since
it doesn't yet know that the URL produces output of type
-@samp{text/html}. To prevent this re-downloading, you must use
-@samp{-k} and @samp{-K} so that the original version of the file will be
-saved as @file{@var{X}.orig} (@pxref{Recursive Retrieval Options}).
+@samp{text/html} or @samp{application/xhtml+xml}. To prevent this
+re-downloading, you must use @samp{-k} and @samp{-K} so that the original
+version of the file will be saved as @file{@var{X}.orig} (@pxref{Recursive
+Retrieval Options}).
@cindex http user
@cindex http password
the given @sc{url}, documents, retrieving the files the @sc{html}
document was referring to, through markups like @code{href}, or
@code{src}. If the freshly downloaded file is also of type
-@code{text/html}, it will be parsed and followed further.
+@code{text/html} or @code{application/xhtml+xml}, it will be parsed and
+followed further.
Recursive retrieval of @sc{http} and @sc{html} content is
@dfn{breadth-first}. This means that Wget first downloads the requested
Define an additional header, like @samp{--header}.
@item html_extension = on/off
-Add a @samp{.html} extension to @samp{text/html} files without it, like
+Add a @samp{.html} extension to @samp{text/html} or
+@samp{application/xhtml+xml} files without it, like
@samp{-E}.
@item http_passwd = @var{string}
when HTML files are saved under extensions other than @samp{.html},
perhaps because they were served as @file{index.cgi}. So you'd like
Wget to rename all the files served with content-type @samp{text/html}
-to @file{@var{name}.html}.
+or @samp{application/xhtml+xml} to @file{@var{name}.html}.
@example
wget --mirror --convert-links --backup-converted \
projects / wget / blobdiff