J.2. Editing XHTML

In this appendix, we write XHTML in its source-code form. We create XHTML documents by typing them in with a text editor (e.g., Notepad, Wordpad, vi or emacs), saving the documents with either an .html or .htm file-name extension.

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Good Programming Practice J.1

Assign documents file names that describe their functionality. This practice can help you identify documents faster. It also helps people who want to link to a page, by giving them an easy-to-remember name. For example, if you are writing an XHTML document that contains product information, you might want to call it products.html.

Machines running specialized software called a Web server store XHTML documents. Clients (e.g., Web browsers) request specific resources, such as XHTML documents, from the Web server. For example, typing www.deitel.com/books/downloads.htm into a Web browser's address field requests downloads.htm from the Web server running at www.deitel.com. This document is located in a directory named books.