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Old Pedant · 11-13-2012, 07:35 PM

HTML is not XML.

You *can* have XHTML that is XML-compatible, though.

But there are many rules in XML that are not necessarily followed in HTML.

If you use XHTML in strict mode and validate it (say with the w3c validator) *then* you can probably treat it as XML for the purposes of this usage.

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