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Comment by masklinn

> HTML5 could have taken the extra step of defining a canonical XML or XML-compatible DOM encoding, or at least encouraged it.

Yeah and then we could have called it xhtml5. Too bad that does not exist. Oh wait https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/xhtml.html

> But the anti-XML sentiment was explicit and spiteful.

No, xhtml was just a bad idea creating tons of problems and solving none.

parent masklinn 14 days ago

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