Options +Includes

# See Calvin Smith's "Serving XHTML Correctly Using Apache"
#   http://protempore.net/~calvins/howto/xhtml-apache/
# for details on the following code, which works around
# application/xhtml+xml issues with MSIE.
RewriteEngine On
AddType application/xhtml+xml;q=0.8 .shtml
#RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.shtml$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} MSIE [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} application/xhtml\+xml\s*;\s*q=0\.?0*(\s|,|$)
RewriteRule .* - [T=text/html]

# If MSIE was intelligent, we could replace the above with a simple
#AddType application/xhtml+xml .shtml