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Re: XHTML survival rate?

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• Subject: Re: XHTML survival rate?
• From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>
• Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 14:58:24 +0200
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Rick Jelliffe wrote:
> From: "Eric van der Vlist" <vdv@d...>
>  
> 
>>I think we have to face it: XML or not, pages on the web are what they 
>>are, we have no power to enforce any format or specification and will 
>>have to adapt our tools and relax our parsers if we don't want to 
>>restrict ourselves to accessing an insignificant proportion of the web.
> 
>  
> The shortcoming is not XHTML but XML.

Fair enough, but as Simon pointed out, XHTML == HTML + XML. If you 
remove XML from XHTML what do you have save HTML?

Eric

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