- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:33:26 +0200
- To: public-html <public-html@w3.org>
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> wrote: > Are you aware that XHTML 1.0 Appendix C did *not* support that kind of > flagging? On the contrary! > > Of course, for *end* tags, then XHTML 1.0 validation did of course > catch such errors. But for auto-generated elements, like <tbody>, > then, as noted in the PolyglotRecommendationRationale, XHTML 1.0 > required *XML parsers* to adapt (which is directly opposed to the > identical DOM principle): There are many cases where people expect XHTML to solve a problem for them and it doesn’t *really*. However, for people who wanted to avoid implied tags, XHTML 1.0 as text/html was a better approximation than any kind of HTML validation. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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