[lxml-dev] Proposal: Better html5lib Support

Mon Jul 14 23:40:10 CEST 2008

On 12 Jul 2008, at 23:14, Armin Ronacher wrote:

> Comes out as (lxml.etree.tostring)::
>
>    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "" "">
>    ...
>
> Not a big deal as not writing out data as a whole document and if I  
> would then
> as HTML4.  I think the html5 doctype is not a valid XML doctype but  
> HTML5 as
> serialization format is not really XML.  For HTML5 serialization one  
> would have
> to use the html5lib serializer anyways and that could add a  
> workaround for
> lxml.

The intention, FWIW, is for XHTML5 documents to have no DOCTYPE.

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