On 06/05/2004, at 12:03 AM, 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).
Are you saying that XHTML transitional is a "less strict data format" than XML too or are you off on some tangent?
If the the former then please explain in it more detail, I really am under the impression that XHTML transitional is XML - that being so, in what way can it (XHTML transitional) be a less strict data format (than XML)?
I *think* that the transitional aspect is related to the set of available tags, rather than it's XML suitability. A lot of behavioural/presentational tags and tag attributes were removed from strict, but left in for transitional.
Whether XHTML is valid XML is beyond my knowledge, but I believe it is.
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