Summary


By migrating your HTML development to make it fully XHTML, you gain a number of benefits. It becomes easier for you and your applications to validate and parse XHTML. You can also use all the XML tools and technologies for processing your pages. For example, if your content is valid XML, you can more easily perform XSLT or XQuery with the content. Processing becomes simpler as well because you no longer have to worry about empty tags, case insensitivity, or unquoted attributes.

By changing your formatting to use CSS throughout, you are reducing the bandwidth needs of your XHTML (or HTML) pages and making your site easier to maintain. Rather than scanning through all your pages, you now change selectors in one place and have that change applied to all pages. CSS also provides more flexibility in formatting than other technologies.

Microformats are an intriguing development for embedding semantic information directly in XHTML pages (or other XML files). Although not a standard or even proposed to any standards body, many microformats are based on standards, and a number of people are working to maintain consistency in their use. Future developments may make them easier to include in your pages, and future search engines may extract the information they provide, making searches more valid and accurate.




Professional XML
Professional XML (Programmer to Programmer)
ISBN: 0471777773
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 215

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