RE: [xml-dev] What is the rule for parsing XML in a namespace inside HTML?

["Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@microsoft.com>]

> >I'm really suspicious of calls to rewrite a better, XML-aware
browser.
> 
> That's fortunately not neccessary, as "more than 95% of browsers in
use"
> are "XML-based browser",
<http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2004/xhtml-faq.html>.

So-called XHTML support in browsers is a joke.  You can use XML, so long
as it looks just like HTML with a few minor variations.  Change the
order of namespace declarations, redeclare namespaces, use a creative
prefix, etc. and it blows up.

I really can't believe otherwise intelligent people continue to deceive
themselves with such wishful thinking.

I also don't understand why the religious devotion to XHTML, when it was
only a stopgap idea between HTML and XML+XSLT+CSS support; which we
already have.