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Posted by dpapathanasiou on 04/20/07 15:12
> This is unfortunate why? Because of the high correlation between
> people who have something to say worth reading and those who can write
> XML without screwing it up? Face it, HTML is a markup language
> historically created directly by humans, which means you *will* get
> good content with syntax errors by authors who will not fix it.
But this problem was entirely preventable: if Netscape and early
versions of IE had rejected incorrectly-formatted html, both people
hacking raw markup and web authoring tools would have learned to
comply with the spec, and parsing html would not be the nightmare it
is today.
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