MS code will generally, not validate! In other words it is non-standard. But, why! Because, they add a lot of fluff which looks nice and makes their editor simple to use.

That is not technical, but political! I have not use Adobe for a long time. GoLive use to have a validater at least!

Furthermore, you do not use HTML making printed matter! It is not designed for that.
So what is NEEDED an EDITOR designed towards editing text for ebooks for the output
media and it needs. you do NOT need the full standard. Yet, as long as people think they
have to use the full standard to create aesthetically looking Books, the problem is political!

regards
Keith

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"A lot of fluff which looks nice and makes their editor simple to use." How inconsiderate.

The problem is that people don't write well-formed text. They write prose and poetry. They write catalogs and plays and textbooks. All of which are often not "well-formed" structurally. Shakespeare especially so. Have you ever tried to map a Shakespeare play to XHTML?

A "page" is often discontinguous with a Chapter or a Verse or Stanza or Scene. You have footnotes and sidenotes and stage directions willy-nilly. There's no "simple" way for a rigorously hierarchical method to accommodate that. (and X- is distinguished if anything for its rigor).

So the problem is not Shakespeare, but those who carelessly mis-transcribed the structure of his work?

I'll wait to see your special Editor. At least bb is willing to put it on the line.