Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx misrenders many *IN*valid xhtml5 pages on my site

[Lennart Jablonka]

Quoth Thorsten Glaser:
> Your file is well-formed XML, but neither valid for webbrowsers
> (due to the omission of the space before “/>” self-closing tags)
> nor actually valid for any XHTML DTD because you self-close tags
> that MUST NOT be self-closed.

And here I thought that all of XHTML 1.0, XHTML 1.1, HTML5 XML 
syntax, and WHATWG HTML XML syntax defer parsing to the XML 
processor.  And that the don’t-self-close-non-EMPTY-elements and 
the space-before-/> were nothing but XHTML 1.0 guidelines for 
compatibility with browsers not aware of XHTML, allowing the 
author to use the Media type text/html (not the case here) but not 
requiring him to abide by those guidelines.

So yeah, abiding by those guidelines will make your already 
conforming XHTML work with browsers not implementing XHTML, such 
as lynx.

Do you see it differently, Thorsten?  What did I get wrong?