- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 08:57:08 -0500
Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> * Lachlan Hunt wrote:
>> Yes, never! For one, a conforming HTML 5 (not XHTML 5) document
>> requires the DOCTYPE to be <!DOCTYPE html> and that is not well-formed XML.
>
> Yes it is.
Good catch. I forgot that. There are one or two XML parsers that blow
this one, but they're not much used. The specific BNF production is:
doctypedecl ::= '<!DOCTYPE' S Name (S ExternalID)? S? ('[' intSubset
']' S?)? '>'
External ID and system ID are both optional.
Is there anything else that stops every HTML5 document from being a
well-formed XML document?
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