[thelist] xhtml conversion

Thu May 9 04:51:00 CDT 2002

On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 19:08, Martin wrote:
>
> On Thursday, May 9, 2002, at 09:24  am, Simon Hill wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 16:43, Mark Gallagher wrote:
> >> George Klingenhoffer wrote:
> >>> I remember reading awhile back about browser compatibility issues with
> >>> XHTML.  If I convert all my HTML to XHTML (which really is tableless
> >>> CSS
> >>> stuff and standard HTML), would most browsers be able to view the
> >>> pages?
> >>
> >> Um, not it isn't.  XHTML is HTML with some modifications to make it
> >> more
> >> conforming to the rules of XML.
> >
> > I'd say more like XHTML is XML that looks like HTML. That is, it uses
> > the HTML namespace and a similar DTD to HTML 4.
>
> "XHTML 1.0 is a reformulation of HTML 4.01 in XML, and combines the
> strength of HTML 4 with the power of XML... XHTML 1.0 borrows the tags
> from W3C's earlier work on HTML 4, and can be interpreted by existing
> browsers, by following a few simple guidelines."
> http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/

Indeed. The way I see it is, XHTML is XML, or for UAs that don't know
about XML, they see text/html or <html> and treat it like HTML.
nb: XHTML's mime-type is application/xhtml+xml.