Is XPath Suitable For HTML5 Format?

We know that XPath is created for XML parsing. What about HTML5 since it doesn't necessarily respect XML rules?

Solution 1:

There are 2 XMLs: Lexical XML and Parsed XML. XPath works against a Parsed XML representation, such as DOM or XDM. You can therefore create Parsed XML from Lexical HTML5, that way you can query HTML5 using XPath.

Solution 2:

XPath is for querying a DOM, not parsing markup. A DOM can be generated from an HTML document, so you can query it with XPath.