On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Carl (CBM) <cbm.wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I hope that, before the doctype is changed to html5, a
substantial
grace period is given for people to change to an HTML5 parser in their
javascript code.
We will continue with well-formed XML output for the foreseeable
future for exactly this reason. We don't need to stop emitting
well-formed XML to use HTML5. I have tested trunk defaults ($wgHtml5
= true; $wgWellFormedXml = true;) with the Python SAX parser and it
parses pages correctly, so no tools should be broken.