I have a project coming up in the very near future.  It's for a company that 
is some kind of investment firm, and they have a *ton* of data that is 
tabular in form.  They want to use tables *only* for the tabular data, and 
that's it - the rest is supposed to be in XHTML.

Now, I've been told my *my* boss that the client eventually wants to move 
the site into complete XML - not necessarily now, but in the next couple of 
years.  So they want me to code the site in as strict XHTML as I possibly 
can.

I have no problem doing this - I am aware, though, that if you use the XHTML 
1.1 documentation, you should really serve the page up as an XML document 
using "application/xml" or something like that, and that many people who use 
XHTML 1.1 incorrectly serve up the document (I'm guilty of this in the 
past).  I'm not sure what the exact semantics are on this, so pardon my 
"iffyness" here!

Anyway, I'd like to have this site function and work properly with CSS and 
XHTML 1.1 - if I can even go as far as XML, I'd love to.  Or, would you all 
stick with XHTML 1.0 Strict and let them work it up to XML themselves?  I 
know when I've *tried* to do XHTML 1.1 (and serve it up as an XML doc) I get 
all kinds of weird errors and code things - it just seems so difficult. 
Have any of you done an XML site and had it display CSS (and HTML code) 
successfully?  Where can I read up on this kind of thing?  Everything I find 
when trying to Google it is either foggy in this area, or complete 
techno-babble and I can't make heads or tails of it.

Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated!  It's kind of exciting to 
actually have a client that understands some of this stuff for once, and I'd 
like to make the transition as easy as possible for them.  Plus, I've been 
wanting to try it out *seriously* but haven't had a real chance to yet.  I 
think this is a cool opportunity.

~Shelly


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