> Scott van Looy: > > Doesn't. XHTML 1 is simply HTML 4 rendered as XML - 1.1 doesn't have much > > in the way of new features. XHTML is XML conformant, which gives you things like namespaces. It's also much easier to machine generate, machine parse and apply styles to server side. > XHTML isn't html HTML. There are other clients which don't handle > XHTML, and throwing XHTML at them means they'll interpret it > differently, according to the rules of HTML. That extra slash, added to > non-empty elements, actually has another meaning. This is why XHTML recommends things like <br /> to avoid ambiguity. There are cases where HTML form is useful which is longer in XHTML though, eg the shortcuts <td>blah</><>blah</><>blah</> are not valid XHTML. Alan
