XHTML (for begginers)

It is interesting for a beginner to write his/her own code in XHTML , extended Hyper Text Markup Language written in XML or extended Markup Language, as HTML has become a mess, buggy. In 1999 the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) came up with XHTML. It has the capability to be extended, use extra modules to manipulate the web pages, which earlier could not be done with HTML, and to be comprehensible for clients and servers (long term goal). Moreover the author in XHTML Web Design for Beginners at Site Point observes that it is better and logical for beginners of web design to begin coding in XHTML rather than get diffused by HTML from the starting point. He further illustrates his claim by quoting a small e.g. to display ‘Hello World!’ in the browser window. The code is displayed in http://l.pr/a43fg/. Another interesting revelation I observed in the code was that the author stated the XHTML code by writng the first line as ‘’ (why did the author do this? Could we start the coding without writing this line and would the browser still interpret the web page normally, as it does in other occasions I need to clarify this as I am not aware of its significance). This code gives us a general template and is good to go.

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Reference:-

Alastair’s video tutorial 1.

XHTML Web Design for Beginners, viewed 15 August 2009, http://www.sitepoint.com/article/xhtml-web-design-beginners-2/2/