Abstract
Adobe believes that the Future of HTML lies in retaining the bulk of the behavioral semantics of HTML, it's tagset and associated CSS standard while moving to a fully XML compliant syntax. In our view this should take a phased approach as the evolving future of HTML. In the primary phase, HTML is enhanced minimally to accomodate XML. In the succeeding phase, HTML is altered to have a well formed XML syntax along side the current syntax(es). In the succeeding phase, the semantics of HTML are exposed in a uniform manner through an XML document
XHTML is a combination of HTML and XML (EXtensible Markup Language).
XHTML consists of all the elements in HTML 4.01 combined with the syntax of XML.
Why XHTML?
We have reached a point where many pages on the WWW contain "bad" HTML.
The following HTML code will work fine if you view it in a browser, even if it does not follow the HTML rules:
<html>
<head>
<title>This is bad HTML</title>
<body>
<h1>Bad HTML
</body>
XML is a markup language where everything has to be marked up correctly, which
XHTML is a combination of HTML and XML (EXtensible Markup Language).
XHTML consists of all the elements in HTML 4.01 combined with the syntax of XML.
Why XHTML?
We have reached a point where many pages on the WWW contain "bad" HTML.
The following HTML code will work fine if you view it in a browser, even if it does not follow the HTML rules:
<html>
<head>
<title>This is bad HTML</title>
<body>
<h1>Bad HTML
</body>
XML is a markup language where everything has to be marked up correctly, which
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