Posted by David Dorward on 02/02/06 23:00

John Salerno wrote:

> Aside from " />", is there any difference between HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0?

Several. You can find the details at http://w3.org/TR/xhtml1/

There are also some undocumented changes.

> But I guess one reason I've gone with XHTML is that it will eventually
> replace HTML.

Really? How do you know?

Besides, XHTML 2.0 isn't going to be backwards compatible with 1.0 anyway.

> It won't be an alternate version, and it doesn't seem
> likely that there will be an HTML 5.

WHATWG disagree.

> I've never seen a problem with the /> tag yet

I have. Conforming browsers treating XHTML as HTML (which they should when
it is served as text/html[1] will treat <foo /> as <foo>> and display >
characters all over the document.

> so just like there's no real reason to use XHTML, there doesn't seem to be
> much of a reason *not* to.

Now you know better.

[1] And IE (among others) will prompt the user to download XHTML served with
the correct content type rather than displaying it.

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