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[Scott van Looy]

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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