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Bug 6354 - XHTML5 websites validate as "HTML5" instead of "XHTML5"
Summary: XHTML5 websites validate as "HTML5" instead of "XHTML5"
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML Checker
Classification: Unclassified
Component: General (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
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Reported: 2009-01-05 11:42 UTC by Dean Edridge
Modified: 2015-08-23 07:07 UTC (History)
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Description Dean Edridge 2009-01-05 11:42:32 UTC 
XHTML5 web sites are being validated as "HTML5" instead of "XHTML5". The validator is treating these XHTML pages as XHTML5 internally, but is giving the success message as "HTML5" instead of "XHTML5".

Like Sam's site:

http://qa-dev.w3.org/wmvs/HEAD/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fintertwingly.net%2Fblog%2F&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0&user-agent=W3C_Validator%2F1.630

Such sites should be given a success message something like: "valid XHTML5".
Comment 1 Michael[tm] Smith 2010-06-14 09:14:10 UTC 
There are no current plans to change the message for this case.