HTML vs XHTML Parsing Speed

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Preparation HTML

<script type="text/text" id="example"><!DOCTYPE html>
<html xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" >
	<body>
		<table class="table">
			<thead class="table-head">
				<tr>
					<th>Name</th>
					<th>Age</th>
					<th>Favourite food</th>
				</tr>
			</thead>
			<tbody class="table-body">
				<tr>
					<td>John</td>
					<td>31</td>
					<td>Beans</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>Jeff</td>
					<td>28</td>
					<td>Bacon</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>Douglas</td>
					<td>42</td>
					<td>Dolphin</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>Jenny</td>
					<td>25</td>
					<td>Cheese</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>Anna</td>
					<td>29</td>
					<td>Soup</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>Adam</td>
					<td>50</td>
					<td>Chicken</td>
				</tr>
			</tbody>
		</table>
	</body>
</html>
</script>

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HTML Parsing
const parser = new DOMParser();
const content = document.getElementById("example").textContent;

const doc = parser.parseFromString(content, "text/html");
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XHTML Parsing
const parser = new DOMParser();
const content = document.getElementById("example").textContent;

const doc = parser.parseFromString(content, "application/xhtml+xml");
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