there were a couple of threads about this issue at WEB4LIB recently. subject = "Moving from HTML4.01 to XML" subject = "to X or not to X"
the consensus was generally mixed, as it is here. one of my gurus <bow> said: <paste> Moving from any flavor of HTML to the corresponding flavor of XHTML is a pretty minor syntax change. The failure of IE to handle XHTML's official MIME content type is a non-negligible issue, but a good server environment should be able to send either "application/xhtml+html" or "text/html" based on the browser's Accept headers. Moving from either Transitional version to the corresponding Strict version is where you really get the benefits from distilling your markup down to clean structure. Again IMO, there's little advantage to moving from HTML to XHTML unless you either need to use other XML applications or editors, or you just want to play with XHTML. </paste> but it was also pointed out .... <paste> Note that a strict interpretation of the WAI WCAG 1.0 guidelines would indicate that you MUST use XHTML 1.0 if you intent to comply with WAI AA guidelines. See <http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/> Checkpoints: 11.1 Use W3C technologies when they are available and appropriate for a task and use the latest versions when supported. [Priority 2] </paste> if anyone wants to investigate further, the WEB4LIB searchable archives are at http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive.html vicki ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
