I'm very new to XHTML, have been incorrectly using HTML for years and am finally taking a class to write html/xhtml files with some sort of logic. However, I have a question that is irritating the hell out of me. The book I'm reading from, "HTML and XHTML" by Patrick Carey, says (or my understanding of what it says) that I write an XHTML document, place it on the server, then when it is accessed by a user, an XML parser checks its syntax, and if it it is well formed and valied, it is passed by the parser and displayed by the browser. So if I put this page together:
<code> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> <head> </head> <body> Test body <span> </body> </html> </code> Now obviously this is not a well formed document, yet, it successfully opens in both Opera and IE7, when, in my opninion, the page should not have been rendered due to the errors in the pages content. Which brings me to my question of, what the hell is the point of using XHTML? It seems to have everything clean and proper, yet there is no enforcement? Thank you ahead of time for any enlightenment... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ -- You received this because you are subscribed to the "Design the Web with CSS" at Google groups. To post: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
