XHTML5 is a fancy name for the way the HTML5 spec grudgingly allows the use of XML-like syntax, allowing for XML Builders like current markaby to be technically allowable as valid HTML. It's not 'real' in that they don't provide validators for it and browsers aren't supposed to parse it as XML or support any XML features.
The HTML spec suggests it be avoided if possible, and I agree, on the grounds that XML-style syntax gives people the incorrect impression that a document maybe valid XML. In most cases, that's not true. It might also give people the impression that they could use XML features, which is also not true. XHTML is a dead standard. Long live HTML with XML-style boolean attributes and self closing tags permitted! And long live Nokogiri/Beautiful Soup - the easy and friendly way to parse any sort of document, regardless if it pretends to be XML or is just plain friendly compact HTML. — Jenna Fox On Tuesday, 20 December 2011 at 10:09 AM, Dave Everitt wrote: > > Small note: XHTML did survive, it's XHTML2 which didn't: there's an > > XML version of HTML5 called XHTML5. > > > > We now return to your regularly scheduled discussion. > > I didn't know about XHTML5 and can't find any recent information? - > DaveE > > _______________________________________________ > Camping-list mailing list > Camping-list@rubyforge.org (mailto:Camping-list@rubyforge.org) > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list > >
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