Thanks for the summary Jenna - I dropped back from XHTML to HTML4.01
strict some time ago, then to HTML5, so for me the XML-like syntax
permitted in HTML5 seems out of place. But I'm not losing sleep over
it... for the discussion about Markaby I just thought it might be good
to strip out anything unnecessary to reduce complexity - DaveE
XHTML5 is a fancy name for the way the HTML5 spec grudgingly allows
the use of XML-like syntax, allowing for XML Builders like current
markaby to be technically allowable as valid HTML. It's not 'real'
in that they don't provide validators for it and browsers aren't
supposed to parse it as XML or support any XML features.
The HTML spec suggests it be avoided if possible, and I agree, on
the grounds that XML-style syntax gives people the incorrect
impression that a document maybe valid XML. In most cases, that's
not true. It might also give people the impression that they could
use XML features, which is also not true. XHTML is a dead standard.
Long live HTML with XML-style boolean attributes and self closing
tags permitted! And long live Nokogiri/Beautiful Soup - the easy and
friendly way to parse any sort of document, regardless if it
pretends to be XML or is just plain friendly compact HTML.
—
Jenna Fox
On Tuesday, 20 December 2011 at 10:09 AM, Dave Everitt wrote:
Small note: XHTML did survive, it's XHTML2 which didn't: there's an
XML version of HTML5 called XHTML5.
We now return to your regularly scheduled discussion.
I didn't know about XHTML5 and can't find any recent information? -
DaveE
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