OK, lol, no point in using it now, but its a good practice to get into
so that someday, I'll be kick ass.

Thanks all for the responses, shed a lot of light on my question.

On Oct 20, 12:53 am, andrew23 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> See:http://hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml
> <quote>
>         Sending XHTML as text/html Considered Harmful
>         ======================================
>
>         The advantages of XHTML
>         -----------------------
>
>         When sent as application/xhtml+xml, XHTML has several advantages:
>
>          1. XHTML content will be able to be mixed-and-matched with content
>                 from other well-known namespaces (in particular, MathML). This
>                 is the main advantage for content authors.
>
>          2. Browsers will immediately catch well-formedness errors (though
>                 other errors still won't be caught).
>
>          3. Tools interacting with XHTML documents are guaranteed a
>                 well-formed document.
>
>         However, none of these apply when an XHTML document is sent as
>         text/html, and since authors feel their pages should be readable on
>         the most popular Web browser, which does not support
>         application/xhtml+xml, there is basically no point in using XHTML at
>         the moment.
>
>         Conclusion
>         ----------
>
>         There are few advantages to using XHTML if you are sending the
> content
>         as text/html, and many disadvantages.
>
> </quote>
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