Re: HTML/XML TF Report glosses over Polyglot Markup

Robin Berjon writes:

> Saying "polyglot" here just doesn't help: very little real-world
> content uses it. Note that the section clearly looks at polyglot and
> gives a clear reason for not using it in this case.

That depends on where you look.  I know of a number of companies whose
products produced, by design, HTML-compatible XHTML, which we would
now call polyglot, precisely because it gave them the ability to
post-process with XML tools while at the same time serving to IE6
clients confidently.  The parallel requirements aren't going away, and
polyglot HTML5 will serve them very well.

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