obscure problem using elementtree to make xhtml website

[Richard Brodie]

"Stefan Behnel" <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote in message 
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>>Not a bug in IE (this time), which is correctly parsing the file as html.
>
> ... which is obviously not the correct thing to do when it's XHTML.

It isn't though; it's HTML with a XHTML DOCTYPE, and the
compatibility rules in Appendix C of the XHTML recommendation apply.
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_3