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Re: Victory has been declared in the schema wars ...

• From: ht@i... (Henry S. Thompson)
• To: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:03:45 +0000

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Elliotte Harold writes:

> More to the point, HTML5 is not XML. It is not well-formed, and in
> general an HTML5 document cannot be made well-formed without crippling
> it by removing quite a few elements. Therefore XML schema languages
> really don't fit it at all.

So I've been trying to get my head around this, and reading the HTML5
parsing spec. [1].  I don't by any means understand it all as yet, but
I don't see any basis for what you say above.  Could you give an
example HTML5 document where repair requires removing elements?  All
the fixups I see in the parsing spec. are insertions (or ignoring of
unexpected end tags). . .

Thanks,

ht

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