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New W3C Specification Allows Mixing XML & HTML

by Dave Murphy
ISSN 1535-3613

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released a new webpage specification, XHTML 1.0, this week with the anticipation that the new specification will assist webpage designers to implement XML (Extensible Markup Language) functions with the more common webpage language, HTML (Hypertext Markup Language).

XML allows complex elements such as mathematical equations and music measures. These elements are difficult to create using only the HTML grammar and syntax.

XHTML may also help transmit web documents to handheld devices such as converting a large table of data to a format and size that can be read on the small screens of handheld computers and cell phones.

This week the specification for XHTML 1.0 moved into the proposed recommendation period, and will be evaluated over the next four weeks. The specification's status will be announced at least two weeks after the review period ends: XHTML 1.0 will either become a W3C recommendation that can be adopted by the industry, reverted back to draft status, or dropped entirely.

I'm intrigued by the possibilities of XHTML. It appears to be an accessible supplement to HTML, with which most of us are already familiar. XML is a bit tough to grasp for most web designers. XHTML may be an easy transition beyond HTML's limitations without requiring the single leap to XML.

What do you think? What would you like to do on your site but you can't because of limitations imposed by HTML? Leave your comments on the message center.

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