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Only one branch of the HTML family tree was ever XML compatible. I was a heavy user of XHTML in the day, so I'm sympathetic... But it's misleading to characteri
by gmfawcett 6y ago
Only one branch of the HTML family tree was ever XML compatible. I was a heavy user of XHTML in the day, so I'm sympathetic... But it's misleading to characterize non-XML variants of HTML as questionable shortcuts.
- chrismorgan 6y agoStrictly speaking, HTML is still XML-compatible—the XML serialisation is still a thing, though pretty rare these days. But yeah, the HTML serialisation is not XML-compatible, though you can easily write documents that will be parsed identically by the XML and HTML parsers.