Extensible HyperText Markup Language


Extensible HyperText Markup Language

(hypertext, standard, World-Wide Web)(XHTML) A reformulationof HTML 4.01 in XML. Being XML means that XHTML can beviewed, edited, and validated with standard XML tools. At thesame time, it operates as well as or better than HTML 4 inexisting HTML 4 conforming user agents.

The most important change is that all elements must beterminated, either with a closing tag or using the shorthand. So, instead of



you would write



The space before the "/" is required by some older browsers.Other differences are that tag and attribute names should belower case and all attributes should be quoted.

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Latest version: 1.0 Second Edition 2002-08-01, as of 2004-03-16.