The XHTML Way
The XHTML Way is a nice article in which Vlad Alexander explains the differences between HTML and XHTML, and why separating data from formatting is a good idea.
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I like the article, especially in how it stresses the importance of separating presentation from content. I wouldn't call using the application/xhtml+xml media type a "slight change" though, because this has quite some presuppositions (well-formed code, encoding issues etc.) as I refered to in my article The Myth of XHTML
Yeah, you have to be confident that everything is valid when you start using
application/xhtml+xml. I'm actually doing that for a client site. The site uses our own CMS, where I have complete control of the XHTML produced. The CMS also uses XStandard, the standards-based WYSIWYG editor that Vlad mentions in the article. So far we haven't seen any invalid code come out of it.Sorry, comments are closed for this post.