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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