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XHTML by Example
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XHTML by Example

by Ann Navarro
November 2000
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
8h 8m
English
Que
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XHTML Document Well-Formedness and Validity

The primary requirement of XHTML documents, as with any XML-based document, is that they be well-formed. Well-formedness means that all elements are written using proper syntax, they are closed where they should be, attribute values are always in quotes, and so on. Validity, which is a requirement of XHTML documents but an optional state for XML documents, requires that the syntax used in XHTML documents also conform to the document type definitions (DTDs) for those documents. You can't have elements nested within each other if the DTD prohibits it, attribute values must conform to the specified range of values, and the document must conform to any other restrictions set out in the DTD.

XHTML has three ...

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