htmlpurifier with an html5 doctype

Question

Is it possible to have htmlpurifier use the html5 doctype?

The documentation here states that you can change the doctype and encoding with the following:

Answer 1

As for fall of 2017 seems there are still no official support.

...but you can check some kind of workaround for HTML5 here: https://github.com/kennberg/php-htmlpurfier-html5

and another one: https://github.com/xemlock/htmlpurifier-html5