Posted by David Dorward on 10/12/44 11:17

Guy Doucet wrote:
> Should I buy a book on XHTML or XML

XHTML 1.0 is simply HTML 4.01 expressed in XML rather than SGML. It means a
few minor changes in syntax and a bundle of interesting compatibility
issues (mostly theoretical) with browsers. There is usually little point in
using it over HTML 4.01, so I would stick with that. I find that the
specification is highly readable <http://w3.org/TR/html4/> so I'd suggest
that over a book.

XML is a language to build markup languages from. Its useful if you need to
pass messages in standard formats between systems, but not particularly if
you want to author webpages.

> and if DHTML is for browser scripting, couldn't I just keep usign
> Javascript?

DHTML is a buzzword that *usually* means HTML + JavaScript + CSS + DOM. Its
useful to know all four technologies, but not so helpful to use the
buzzword.

I can't comment on CSS books as I've never read any.
http://css.nu/pointers/index.html#Tutorials is useful for CSS.

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