I use XHTML in my own static site generator, together with an external XML minifier library, then validate the output at build time. In my tests XHTML had a sig

I use XHTML in my own static site generator, together with an external XML minifier library, then validate the output at build time. In my tests XHTML had a significant parsing advantage over HTML, and I didn't need to do any questionable stuff like in the suggestions here.