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What is XHTML?

How does XHTML relate to XML and HTML?

What is XHTML?

Nov 21st, 2000 06:43
Michael Claßen, Ben Gordon,

XHTML is a reformulation of HTML in XML. HTML entered a crisis when yet
another version of the standard came out, with more and more tags and
attributes for various purposes. Browsers trying to implement those
standards became as bloated as the definitions, and more often than not
they got it wrong. This led to the incompatibilies we all suffer from
now when a Web page does not show up as intended in our favorite
browser.
XHTML tries to design the advantages of XML into HTML by using the
extensibility to create a modularized specification, and by omitting
features that are covered in other XML vocabularies, such as MathML.
For details see http://webreference.com/xml/column6/