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superghost · 02-08-2004, 21:47

Does anyone know where a good site for learning XHTML is located at? Also how difficult is it to convert an exisiting HTML doc to XHTML. Is it preferred, will it take over HTML-LOOSE?

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smallbeer · 03-08-2004, 02:55

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Originally Posted by superghost

Does anyone know where a good site for learning XHTML is located at?

A couple of the better ones:
http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/00/50/index2a.html
http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/

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Originally Posted by superghost

Also how difficult is it to convert an exisiting HTML doc to XHTML.

Easier than you think. Just make sure you've got a valid DTD and character encoding, read the tutorials and then do as the validator tells you. If you get stuck, just come on here and ask.

valid dtd and character encoding:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
	
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>my first xhtml page</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" />
</head>

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Originally Posted by superghost

Is it preferred

yes, it's the future....I've seen it.

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Originally Posted by superghost

will it take over HTML-LOOSE?

no idea what that it. google didn't seem to either.

cam · 03-08-2004, 04:26

at a guess he means transitional?

erilidon · 28-08-2004, 17:14

it is so much like html I just went to www.w3schools.com and picked up on the few changes. All my pages are now coded in XHTML Strict. I had one problem when making this switch, the link target attribute wasn't valid. So I got a simple javascript file and used the rel attribute.. I works fine for people that have up-to-date browsers and the few that dont, well links opening up in the current window, isn't going to kill that much traffic.. but yeah, if you want to see my current site coded in xhtml, http://www.c1tadel.com/lchris220/

and yes.. I suppose html loose is replaced by xhtml transitional... I call them the I don't want to go all the way and bring my site to the top lazy way out of it DTD.. but whatever..

xml · 05-09-2004, 13:43

XHTML transitional isn't a replacement for HTML loose.

It's to help people on the transition from HTML to XHTML so that the jump isn't too extreme.

HTML 4.01 has a transitional DTD which was for the same reasons.

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erilidon teh sUxX0r Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 43	it is so much like html I just went to www.w3schools.com and picked up on the few changes. All my pages are now coded in XHTML Strict. I had one problem when making this switch, the link target attribute wasn't valid. So I got a simple javascript file and used the rel attribute.. I works fine for people that have up-to-date browsers and the few that dont, well links opening up in the current window, isn't going to kill that much traffic.. but yeah, if you want to see my current site coded in xhtml, http://www.c1tadel.com/lchris220/ and yes.. I suppose html loose is replaced by xhtml transitional... I call them the I don't want to go all the way and bring my site to the top lazy way out of it DTD.. but whatever..

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