Re: XHTML character entity support

John Cowan wrote:
> Boris Zbarsky scripsit:
> 
>> I don't know what you mean by "legal", but every possible sequence of 
>> bytes has a fixed interpretation as an HTML5 document...
> 
> Well, when I look at 9.1 of the 27 October 2009 draft, I see "Documents
> must consist of the following parts", and in 9.1.1 "A DOCTYPE is a mostly
> useless, but required, header".  What is the effect of violating these
> mandatory constraints?

See section 9.2 "Parsing HTML Documents" [1]

[1] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#parsing

Received on Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:09:15 UTC