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This was done once - it was called XHTML. It was, effectively, just HTML in XML form. Tags had a single syntax (no implicitly self-closing tags). Documents w
by rhencke 9y ago
This was done once - it was called XHTML. It was, effectively, just HTML in XML form. Tags had a single syntax (no implicitly self-closing tags). Documents were required to be well-formed, syntactically, or they would not display.
It did not win.
- dragonwriter 9y agoIt also didn't lose, since WHATWG HTML retains an XML syntax (no longer formally called XHTML, But it's the evolution of the same thing.) There are still use cases for the XML syntax.