My 2c worth.....
I can't see how any scripting language would be considered more or less XHTML friendly than any other scripting language. Once you move to a scripting language and not to just a plain text file with markup in it, you have to use the language to generate the markup. The markup is just strings. The scripting language knows absolutely nothing about the markup language itself (other than what people tell it -
i.e. additional libraries or functions to make some of the generation easier).
So my call would be that PHP is no more ideally suited (or otherwise) to any particular markup language that is text based (e.g. TEX, ROFF, HTML, XHTML, XML, etc. etc.).
Similarly with MySQL as a content manager - markup is just text, store it in a text field in any database and it will all work (assuming you adhere to any character escaping that the databases language requires).
Regards,
Gary
Gary
On 6/28/05, Roberto Gorjão <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Olá a todos!
I've read Ian Hickson and Stuart Langridge objections to the use of
XHTML without serving it as application/xhtml+xml. I also read the
article "WaSP Asks the W3C"
(http://www.webstandards.org/learn/askw3c/sep2003.html) and I decided
that I sure am not going to create two versions of my sites just for the
sake of serving XHTML as it should to browsers which can understand it,
as suggested at the W3C tutorial about "Content-Negotiation"
(http://www.w3.org/2003/01/xhtml-mimetype/content-negotiation ).
Anyway, I noticed that many of you use XHTML and I sure was beginning to
enjoy using it myself, and it seemed to me a good way to practice for
the inevitable future… is it? I mean: a good way to practice, as I
believe that XML is the inevitable future… I'm initiating now my study
on PHP and MySQL and I read some objections about using XHTML with PHP…
Will XHTML interfere with my learning of PHP? Would it be a good idea to
stick with good old plain HTML?
Obrigado!
Roberto
******************************************************
The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/
See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm
for some hints on posting to the list & getting help
******************************************************
