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by tredre3 821 days ago
XHTML had to be valid XML, that was the entire shtick.

Comparatively HTML5 is very lenient in its spec. Browsers are even more lenient in their implementation.
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pests 821 days ago
It has a pretty well defined spec. It's just not XML, and I think that's okay.

Do you have any examples of undefined or linient rules?

I'm a big fan of optional closing tags that HTML5 has. Can do stuff like:

  <h2> Todo List
  <ul>
   <li> Do task A
   <li> Do task B
  <p> Dear Diary, ...
Almost as easy as markdown. Couldn't get this working with XML.
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