Re: XHTML character entity support

Ian Hickson scripsit:

> > (if the first tag you see is an LI, what should you interpolate in front 
> > of it?  Answer: HTML, BODY, UL in that order).
> 
> FWIW: Not in text/html; in text/html it's just HTML, HEAD, BODY.

The text/html media type doesn't necessarily imply HTML5.  In particular,
TagSoup is older than the HTML5 algorithm, and doesn't adhere to it.
Specifically, it never outputs a HEAD element unless it has no choice --
that is, unless there is a HEAD element in the input or an element that
can only appear in a HEAD element.

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beating of drums, and thin, monotonous whine of blasphemous flutes from
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Received on Tuesday, 24 November 2009 01:40:16 UTC