Re: NT: XHTML? (was: Release of a new set of XML/XSLT libraries)

[Julian Missig <julian jabber org>]

Specifically, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#guidelines

If you follow those, then it's fine. It shouldn't be too hard to modify
the stylesheets to do that.

Julian

On 05 May 2001 13:05:57 -0400, Julian Missig wrote:
> On 06 May 2001 02:04:57 +0900, Yamagata Hiroo wrote:
> > At 09:25 01/05/05 -0600, you wrote:
> > 
> > >Are there any arguments in favor of HTML over XHTML or vice versa,
> > >since the output is essentially the same?
> > 
> > HTML.
> > 
> > Netscape 3 and IE 3 (or 4) can't handle xhtml .  For the sake of downward 
> > compatibility,
> > HTML is better.
> > 
> 
> What?? The entire purpose of XHTML is to be backwards compatible. I've
> been making my web sites XHTML for almost a year now, and I have no
> problems with older browsers. See the appendix of the XHTML
> specification for tips on getting it to work fine with older browsers.
> 
> > As long as you are using newer browsers, there won't be any difference. So 
> > moving to xhtml does not bring in any additional advantages.  Also, xhtml 
> > is VERY strict, and it is VERY difficult to make it perfectly xhtml 
> > compliant.  The HTML that the current system is spitting out
> > (the one used for GNOME Users Guide) is very untidy, and it would take 
> > oodles of work to get it right.  So we'd be bringing in more chances of 
> > errors for no extra advantage.
> > 
> 
> But *because* it's very strict it's much easier to parse...
> 
> > Unless we plan to rely heavily on xhtml stylesheets in the future, I'd opt 
> > for HTML.
> >
> 
> But that means we'll have to rely on HTML parsers in the future. With
> XHTML, we only have to rely on XML parsers, with the addition of a
> stylesheet (and I'm fairly certain the stylesheets for XHTML will get
> better as time goes on)
> 
> Julian
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