Today Alan Cox did spake thusly:
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.
They're not valid HTML 4 either ;)
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