XHTML5 DTD validation and data-dojo- attributes

 In development, updates will follow. 

While this is guide for dojo templates validation, the concept is applicable to any JS library which leverage of data- HTML5 attribute.

The mistakes in HTM dojo toolkit widget templates could cost quite a pain as browser will try to make a smart guess what it should actually make out of invalid document. As result you could find misbehavior in completely irrelevant location and spend a fortune on finding the original cause.
The solution is simple: add the DTD validation into development process.
If template is made as HTML, the smart enough IDE or online validator will highlight the errors.

The dijit templated widget uses a DIV as template string source which prevent regular DTD check. Fortunately text! AMD pluging gives ability to strip the tag from html body content:
SAMPLE

HTML5 twisted design made DTD validation impossible just for sake of XML hating. Lucky us there is a work around. XML allow to use the XSL and browsers are capable to render data-dojo- attributes out of "dojo-data" namespace before JS and HTML dom is used making the browser to deal with HTML5 syntax and XML parser with DTD validation.

The sample of completely valid XML and HTML5:
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Dijit template does not accept the XML as template string, so you would need to use the XHtmlBody! loader.
SAMPLE.

References:

www.html5dtd.org - try to cover some subset of HTML5 dtd.