The W3C's recently approved XHTML standard combines HTML and XML and makes it possible for your Web pages to be viewed on a wider variety of devices.
by Kurt Cagle
March 1, 2000
eb developers awake! XHTML (Extensible HyperText Markup Language) is coming to a server near you. It'll change everything you ever knew about Web design, give you untold power on the client and the server, and solve one of the great nagging problems of how to create a Web site without spending billions of dollars on versions for Internet Explorer, Mozilla, AOL, Palm Pilot, your telephone...well, you get the idea. On January 26th, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released the first upgrade of the HTML 4.0 standards in more than a year. Surprisingly, this upgrade wasn't intended to add a few more tags or incorporate a couple of CSS extensions into the language. Instead, the XHTML 1.0 standard (located at www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1) ceased being HTML (see the sidebar, "History of HTML").
An XHTML document, in the main, doesn't appear all that radically different from a "normal" HTML element (see Listing 1). The root of such a document is still an <html> node, the document is divided into a <head> and <body> section, and the tag usage is consistent with what has been produced in HTML editors or by hand for the last decade.
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eb developers awake! XHTML (Extensible HyperText Markup Language) is coming to a server near you. It'll change everything you ever knew about Web design, give you untold power on the client and the server, and solve one of the great nagging problems of how to create a Web site without spending billions of dollars on versions for Internet Explorer, Mozilla, AOL, Palm Pilot, your telephone...well, you get the idea. On January 26th, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released the first upgrade of the HTML 4.0 standards in more than a year. Surprisingly, this upgrade wasn't intended to add a few more tags or incorporate a couple of CSS extensions into the language. Instead, the XHTML 1.0 standard (located at 
