[drupal-docs] XHTML in our documentation - Textile, Markdown, ...

[Morbus Iff]

>>>> The new push for docs is terrific. I think this may be a good time  
>>>> for  our next quantum leap - XHTML (or other calid XML). Today, our  
>>>
>>> There's not much point in using XHTML on the Web today, as you  
>>> can't send  it as application/xhtml+xml, thus browsers parse it as  
>>> HTML.  Until IE  supports the application/xhtml+xml MIME type, it's  
>>> probably best to stick  with HTML 4.01 Strict.
>>
>> Haha, there is a point as transforming our documentation to other  
>> formats is crucial, and HTML is far from beating XHTML in this.

I could argue against that statement. You can write a perfectly parsable 
HTML document and it would be just as easy to transform as any XHTML 
document. The only "crucial" difference between the two is that HTML 
makes pedancy a choice, and XHTML doesn't. But, as the other poster 
mentioned, until XHTML becomes parsed as XML and not HTML, pedancy is 
already thrown out the window since there is no consequence of having an 
invalid XHTML document.

Honestly though, I don't care one way or the other <g>.

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