[WSG] invalid xhtml

[Philippe Wittenbergh]

Amidst all the hubhub about Standards and Validation, some people are 
arguing that they use XHTML served correctly as application/xhtml+xml 
to ensure that their documents validate. Their reasoning is: if I make 
a mistake in my code, browsers will fail to render the documents. This 
is partially true of course, xml parsing will fail if tags are 
mismatched (ex. forgetting a closing tag). But this will *not* 
guarantee that the document is valid xhtml 1.1.  A basic test 
demonstrates this:
<http://dev.l-c-n.com/xhtml/blockquote.php>
(watch it in Firefox or Opera 7.5).

Longer explanation on my site
<http://emps.l-c-n.com/articles/40/invalid-xhtml>
I found that mistake by accident, while doing some testing on text 
input for a CMS. I was amused kind of thing :-)

Philippe
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