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-[HTML
] is an instance
of [SGML], a language for specifying markup languages
.
+[XHTML
] 1.0
is an [XML]-based reimplementation
of the
[SGML]-based [HTML] 4.0 specification. Many [HTML] files are not WellFormed [XHTML
], but can usually be converted relatively simply to [XHTML] 1.. Those that can't usually have UndefinedSemantics anyway
.
-After noticing that features of
[SGML
] had never been implemented
and that there were useful features lcking, people invented called
[XML].
-
-XHTML
] is
the [HTML] represented in
[XML] rather than [SGML]. Many
[HTML] files are not WellFormed
[XHTML], but can usually be converted relatively simply to
[XHTML
]. Those that
can't usually have [UndefinedSemantics] anyway
.
+[XHTML
] 1.1 is much stricter than the 1.0 specification
and a lot closer to the spirit of
[XML] so it can finally bring many cool features to the table (no pun intended)
. By being
[XML
] it can take advantage of
the semantics of other
[XML] languages discard much of the therefor redundant features of
[HTML] (and
[XHTML] 1.). F.ex
, using
[XLink
] semantics, images can be included in a documented using f
.ex the <tt>p</tt> (paragraph) tag, rendering the <tt>img</tt> tag superfluous. (In fact, pretty much any tag
can be used for the purpose
.)
