Re: HTML5 and XML syntax

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• Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:56:05 +0100
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Henri Sivonen skrev:
>>> or just use the HTML-compatible subset of the XML syntax.
>>
>> That would work, but why doesn't the HTML5 WD recommend that?
> 
> Browsers won't parse text/html as XML, so taking the trouble to jump 
> through additional hoops would be a waste of authoring effort.

That would make it possible (in most cases) to serve the same content as 
both text/html and application/xhtml+xml.

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