Re: [XHTML1.1] Error in Conformance Definition document?

Kelly wrote:
> On Monday, April 02, 2007 5:37 pm Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
>   
>> There is no justification for "tag soup out" systems.
>> They just transfer the problem of interpretation to an assortment of
>> idiosyncratic user agents.
>>     
>
> Yes, I thought the point of XHTML was to transfer AWAY from HTML-as-tag-soup 
> by forcing the XML conformance rules on authors...
>   
It absolutely was, and is.  Note that XHTML (all versions) *requires* 
that documents are valid.  If a document is not valid, it is NOT XHTML.

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Received on Tuesday, 3 April 2007 01:08:32 UTC