[72deluxe]

Since HTML is valid XML, it really is perfectly acceptable to say it's the same!

[mdaniel]

  <p>I don't think that's true.<br>
  Perhaps you're thinking of xhtml?

Observe the lack of a closing p tag, to say nothing of the multiple self-closing tags in html: hr, img, link, meta, ...

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/grouping-content.html...