Posted by Toby Inkster on 01/23/06 00:59

John Salerno wrote:

> Is it safe to say that XHTML is a completely new language based on XML
> that just happens to have all the same-named tags as HTML?

More or less -- though the way you say it sounds like this was an
accident. It was deliberately designed to be as close to HTML 4.01
as possible without violating any of the rules of XML.

> I know that HTML is an SGML language, and XHTML is an XML language

If you want to really blow your mind, XML is a subset of SGML.

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