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Why not both? Wasn't the point of the PDF/A ISO standard to use it for archiving? I always felt PDF is better for content like this than HTML which can change dynamically

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A

VeraPDF also exist for PDF/A validation https://github.com/verapdf

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> I always felt PDF is better for content like this than HTML which can change dynamically

It's not that hard to edit a PDF file either, though.

That's not the issue, the problem is we don't know what a document wood look like with next years browser or if it will render at all. That isn't an issue with PDF.

The same applies to PDFs too. There are hundreds of PDF readers and not all of them support all the features besides feature deprecation. You could run flash in PDFs, so archived PDFs that utilized that will be broken.

Hence the aforementioned PDF/A, which is a version with a fixed set of features: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A

Presumably there are text formats which are both machine parseable and which are static? Or why not simply use the static subset of HTML?

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