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XML Unleashed
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XML Unleashed

by Michael Morrison
December 1999
Intermediate to advanced
992 pages
22h 3m
English
Sams
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Why XHTML?

Before getting into how XHTML is implemented and how it compares to HTML, it's worth asking this simple question: Why XHTML? The answer is quite simple and parallels the rationale behind creating XML in the first place.

Currently, the Web is a jumbled mess of hacked HTML code that has very little structure. Poor coding, browser leniency, and proprietary browser extensions have combined to create a Web that is extremely unstructured, which is a bad thing. I don't need to get into why this is a bad thing—every other chapter in this book is a testament to what can be done when documents have structure.

A logical answer to the HTML problem might be to convert everything to XML documents with style sheets that are used to render them. ...

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