[whatwg] [html5] tags, elements and generated DOM

[Olav Junker Kjær]

Lachlan Hunt wrote:
> see no problem with defining error handling for broken 
> documents, but no need to break conformance with SGML in the process. 
> HTML is an application of SGML, regardless of all the broken 
> implementations and documents we currently have, and I don't want to see 
> that changed.

An innocent question (no flamewar intended): What is the benefit of 
having HTML defined as an application of SGML ?

regards
Olav Junker Kjær