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-[HTML] is based on
[SGML], a rather complicated generalised markup
language.
After noticing that most websites (and most browsers) don't use any of the exotic
features of [SGML], people invented a even more simplified version of [SGML]
called [XML]. They then wrote a
[DTD
] for
[HTML] for
[XML], and bingo, we have
[XHTML]. Confused yet?
+[HTML] is an instance of
[SGML], a language for specifying markup languages
.
+
+
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.
