“A new standard is bringing publishers a step closer to creating
Web documents that can be understood by a full range of software
applications and hardware devices from desktop PCs to handhelds and
Web appliances.”
“The XHTML specification was approved Wednesday by the World
Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Net’s standards body. It merges the
Extensible Markup Language (XML) and HyperText Markup Language
(HTML) 4, which together control the exchange and display of
information on the Web.”
“With XHTML 1.0, authors can mix and match HTML 4 elements
with elements from other XML languages, including Synchronized
Multimedia Language (SMIL), mathematical expressions (MathML), and
metadata through the Resource Description Framework (RDF).”
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