On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 05:26, Daniel Convissor <dani...@analysisandsolutions.com> wrote: > Hi Hannes: > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:10:28PM +0100, Hannes Magnusson wrote: > >> It is a tough problem. Be anal about validation or just scrw it, along >> as it works properly - or should we simply drop the whole xhtml stuff >> and move to html5? > > Good point, though full HTML 5 itself isn't doable at this point due to > browsers not supporting it. But the basic HTML stuff is HTML 5 already. > > So if we want to skip XHTML, which is fine with me, we can disregard the > whole "well formed" concept. > > Though we could go toward XHTML 5 variant of the new spec if we want the > documents to be XML parsable.
No need for the rendered docs to be XML parsable, if you need to do some magic against the docs then use the DocBook XML. There shouldn't be any massive work needed to change PhD to render HTML5 rather then XHTML1, so I am totally for it. -Hannes
