Posted by John Salerno on 02/04/06 04:31

I've been doing a little research of my own into this whole HTML vs.
XHTML business (I know, old news to all of you) and I finally am
beginning to see what the real problem is. Naturally I understood that
serving XHTML as text/html means you aren't even taking advantage of the
benefits of XHTML, but I figured I was at least "preparing" myself for
the future.

Anyhow, after finding several sites very much against XHTML (but some in
favor), and especially after reading: http://hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml it
makes a lot more sense to me now why XHTML is considered more or less a
useless language.

But I do have one question still: I know that the main benefit of XHTML
will eventually be that you can integrate other XML-based languages
inside the markup, but what are some simple examples of why/how you
would even do this? Is this something a normal person might do on his
site, or is this a more advanced area that is used by businesses, etc.?

Thanks.

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