From 689cef8a60c262dbee8a139e4f9689b639257e5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Patrick H. Lauke" Intent of Parsing
Since repair techniques vary among user agents, authors cannot assume that content +
Since these repair techniques - the way user agents will attempt to parse and error-correct + malformed or invalid markup - may vary among user agents, authors cannot assume that content will be accurately parsed into a data structure or that it will be rendered correctly by specialized user agents, including assistive technologies, unless the content is created according to the rules defined in the formal grammar for that technology. @@ -38,7 +39,7 @@
The concept of "well formed" is close to what is required here. However, exact parsing requirements vary amongst markup languages, and most non XML-based languages do not - explicitly define requirements for well formedness. Therefore, it was necessary to + explicitly define requirements for well-formedness. Therefore, it was necessary to be more explicit in the success criterion in order to be generally applicable to markup languages. Because the term "well formed" is only defined in XML, and (because end tags are sometimes optional) valid HTML does not require well formed code, the term