What cwyers said. Plus, XML was designed to replace HTML as XHTML, but it didn't happen. Doesn't mean you need to give up markup processing alltogether. Just use full SGML, which has additional features such as tag omission/inference and other markup minimization features for text authoring not in the XML profile of full SGML such as markdown and custom Wiki syntax support. You might actually like it.
You can parse HTML 5 into XML using my HTML 5 DTD [1] and eg. OpenSP's osx tool or my upcoming sgmljs.net tool.
What do you have against DTDs? They do the same as XSD, and then some.
You can parse HTML 5 into XML using my HTML 5 DTD [1] and eg. OpenSP's osx tool or my upcoming sgmljs.net tool.
What do you have against DTDs? They do the same as XSD, and then some.
[1]: http://sgmljs.net/docs/html5.html