> Are there any disadvantages?  Are there any browsers that won't style
> unknown elements (I did discover that MS Word will drop styles on
> unknown elements when importing HTML, though you can hardly call it a
> "browser")?  Any search engines get confused by this?
>
> To me, it seems that this is what XHTML is really about.

To this list, this appears to me off-topic.

And yes, you can do that, however you have to describe your new
elements in a proper schema and pray that the user Agent can handle
them. The idea of HTML is that you have a subset of XML/SGML that user
agents can render instead of guessing how to render it.

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