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Please mention that <col> elements must be wrapped in <colgroup>, because the HTML parsing algorithm implies a <colgroup> around <col> (like IE), so having a <col> without <colgroup> makes the document trees differ between HTML and XML.
Added colgroup under "tables" in the list of required elements, section 6.1.1. Thanks for this tidbit!