- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:49:51 -0800
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Cc: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, public-html <public-html@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org
Boris Zbarsky wrote: > Try loading that in your favorite browsers and seeing what happens. Note > that some of them display some bold text, while others do not. This is > because the XML specification _does_ say that this document is invalid > (that is not XML) Can I ask that we be very careful in our language here? Invalid documents can indeed be correct XML. A malformed document is not XML, but an invalid document is XML. If it's not XML, then the XML definition of validity can't even be applied. That distinction is really critical to this discussion. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu
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