Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 07/09/05 11:13

Mark <mark@manngo.net.example.net> wrote:

> XHTML has a number of benefits both now and in the future
> which I would like to exploit,

That's what people keep saying, but when someone asks for actual
evidence, there's just silence or long and empty explanations.

> XHTML is stricter than HTML,

That's what people also keep saying. Seldom do they mention that XML is
less powerful than SGML, and consequently the XHTML DTDs must permit
quite a many things that HTML DTDs forbid. The XHTML 1.0 spec even says
this fairly explicitly in appendix B:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#prohibitions

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