[ACCEPTED]-Is HTML5 valid XML?-xhtml
No. Counter-examples:
These are valid HTML5 but invalid XHTML5:
Some 11 closing tags can be omitted:
<p>First <p>Secondscriptescape 10 magic:<script><a></script>Attributes without values (boolean 9 attributes):
<input type="text" disabled />Attributes without quotes, e.g.:
<div data-a=b></div>See: In XHTML 1.0 Strict do attribute values need to be surrounded with quotes?
Implicit 8 open elements and multiple top level elements.
Some 7 HTML elements are created implicitly. E.g.
html. This 6 allows the HTML to have "multiple top 5 level elements":<!doctype html><title>a</title><p>a</p>
Valid XHTML that 4 is invalid HTML:
CDATAconstructs with invalid 3 tags insideENTITYand other exclamation mark constructs, which 2 allow for billion laughs: How does the billion laughs XML DoS attack work?
Valid HTML and 1 XHTML but with different meanings:
- HTML has hundreds of named character references (e.g.
£,©), XML has only 5 (quot,amp,apos,lt,gt).
There is an XML serialization of it, called 6 XHTML5. Basically, you're free to use either 5 HTML5 (HTML serialization) or XHTML5 (XML 4 serialization). The draft spec says HTML5 3 "is the format suggested for most authors," mainly 2 for the same reasons people recommend text/html for 1 XHTML 1.1.
You can markup your page as valid HTML5 9 and XHTML5: http://www.w3.org/TR/html-polyglot/
Polyglot markup that meets a well 8 defined set of constraints is interpreted 7 as compatible, regardless of whether they 6 are processed as HTML or as XHTML, per the 5 HTML5 specification.
The basic document could 4 look like:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Of course you'd have to follow 3 some additional rules (like not to use the 2 noscript element, for example), outlined in the 1 linked working draft.
HTML5 can be written with or without self-closing 8 slashes; it is meant to be backwards-compatible 7 with both HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0 6 code, so that it is easy to convert code 5 into valid HTML5. There is an XML serialization 4 called XHTML5, but for backwards-compatibility 3 purposes with IE browsers, it is not recommended 2 to be used. So technically, HTML5 is not considered 1 to be well-formed XML.
Under no condition should you expect any 9 html document (regardless of version) to 8 be "well-formed xml"
html != xml.
It is a different 7 spec with different suggestions (I'm purposely 6 avoiding the word "rules" here) on how it 5 should be interpreted.
The HTML 5 spec 4 has enough "do it this way, but it's okay 3 if you don't" wiggle statements that it's 2 a wonder that any of the browsers show the 1 same thing at all.
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