[WSG] XHTML transitional is a half-way house [WAS] Ten questions for Anne van Kesteren

2004-05-05 Thread Chris Bentley
On 05/05/2004, at 10:09 PM, Patrick Griffiths wrote:
I thought XHTML transitional _is_ XML. In what way is XHTML
transitional is a less strict data format?
It's a transition. It's a half-way house between HTML 4 and XHTML as it
is intended (XHTML Strict).
No its not. There is no such thing as a half-way house between HTML 4  
and XHTML.

XHTML defines a reformulation of HTML 4 as an XML 1.0 application, and  
three DTDs corresponding to the ones defined by HTML 4
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xhtml1-20020801/#abstract

The difference between a strict and  a transitionl DTD (eg HTML4.01  
Strict and HTML4.01 Transitional) is that the strict DTD has  
depreciated elements and attributes removed..

Extensible HTML version 1.0 Transitional DTD -
 This is the same as HTML 4 Transitional except for changes due to the  
differences between XML and SGML.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xhtml1-20020801/dtds.html#a_dtd_XHTML 
-1.0-Transitional

Cheers,
Chris
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Re: [WSG] XHTML transitional is a half-way house [WAS] Ten questions for Anne van Kesteren

2004-05-05 Thread Noa Groveman
Document Type Definition.  It defines what all the tags mean.
YoYoEtc wrote:
What is DTD?
At 09:03 PM 5/5/2004, Chris Bentley wrote:
On 05/05/2004, at 10:09 PM, Patrick Griffiths wrote:
I thought XHTML transitional _is_ XML. In what way is XHTML
transitional is a less strict data format?

It's a transition. It's a half-way house between HTML 4 and XHTML as it
is intended (XHTML Strict).

No its not. There is no such thing as a half-way house between HTML 4
and XHTML.
XHTML defines a reformulation of HTML 4 as an XML 1.0 application, and
three DTDs corresponding to the ones defined by HTML 4
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xhtml1-20020801/#abstract
The difference between a strict and  a transitionl DTD (eg HTML4.01
Strict and HTML4.01 Transitional) is that the strict DTD has
depreciated elements and attributes removed..
Extensible HTML version 1.0 Transitional DTD -
 This is the same as HTML 4 Transitional except for changes due to the
differences between XML and SGML.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xhtml1-20020801/dtds.html#a_dtd_XHTML 
-1.0-Transitional

Cheers,
Chris
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