[whatwg] several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

Anne van Kesteren annevk at opera.com
Thu Dec 7 13:39:44 PST 2006


On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:30:16 +0100, Sander Tekelenburg  
<tekelenb at euronet.nl> wrote:
> [...] that produce code that triggers HTML5-compliant browsers to, as  
> per the HTML5 spec, stop processing the document, [...]

A "parse error" in HTML5 is not like a "parse error" (if there's such a  
thing) in XML. The parsing algorithm in HTML5 works with most HTML  
documents out there. In theory it can replace the parser in your  
day-to-day browser.


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Anne van Kesteren
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