By the way, even strict XML validation doesn’t actually mean the receiver will understand your data correctly. It’s semantics vs. syntax. You can easily write a perfectly valid HTML4-Strict compliant document and have it render differently in different browsers. Why? Because they all implement the CSS differently. Web browser interoperability problems actually have nothing to do with HTML parsing; it’s all about the rendering, which is totally unrelated. It’s amazing to me how many people think strict HTML validation will actually solve any real-world problems.

Well said. I mean come on, I’m not even SEO’ing this blog or anything. Why do I even bother…

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