what is the point of xhtml?

[z10]

:confused:

i have read many long articles on xhtml and they all go in circles talking a lot about nothing. i have not come across one answer.

what is the purpose of xhtml? i mean the real purpose - not just that you can close all the open tags and newer browsers will support it. so what.

why bother with xhtml when there is html? does anyone know?

[mark87]

http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200601/html_or_xhtml_does_it_really_matter/

[oracleguy]

One of the reasons I use XHTML is like stated in the discussion Mark linked to, is that it helps enforce quality and I think I just started using it because there was no reason not to really.

[blain]

XHTML is the next logical step after HTML.
Eventuallt HTML will be fully deprecated and XHTML will take over.

it is the future.

[felgall]

XHTML is what you get when you feed XML through an XSLT filter to generate a web page. The latest office applications support XML so you will be able to create one source document in XML that is converted to XHTML for use on the web and the same content can appear completely differently when used as a word document or spreadsheet.

[gsnedders]

XHTML is what you get when you feed XML through an XSLT filter to generate a web page. The latest office applications support XML so you will be able to create one source document in XML that is converted to XHTML for use on the web and the same content can appear completely differently when used as a word document or spreadsheet.
It isn't always XHTML, it can be any form of XML.

[jkd]

It isn't always XHTML, it can be any form of XML.

XSLT can also output HTML and plain text.