This could generate quite some debate
🙂 - some will say that XHTML is more modern and will allow change to XHTML 2 ( when / if it comes ) willbe easier ) . Some like it becuase it looks tidier, enforces you to close tags .
The World Wide Web Consortium - who control html/xhtml recommend using XHTML.
Supporters of html 4.0 - say it's just not necessary and it doesn't work any better.
Looking at sites, you see some just use a confusing mixture of the two.
Personally - I'm pragmatic and have use XHTML for about 4 years , as I prefer it, it looks neater, haviing to close tags helps illiminate silly errors.
But more importantly it enable me to use the
http://validator.w3.org/ - which helps enormously sorting out errors, but make sure that every page has the following as the top couple of line of the file:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
you could use :
<!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">
<head>
note the strict - but I've been recommended to use transitional as it is a more linient on allowing some features which are due to be dropped.
You might find it useful to find a utility to convert all your files from html to xhtml, I can't recommend one as I use Dreamweaver, which has such a too built in.
But as I said - you may get some styrong arguments from either side - it can generate fierce debate.
I'd be interested to see the html generated by this text to html convertor !. Persoanlly I prefer to use plain ascci text - unformated and the use <h1>,<h2> <em) et etc and control the text with css - but if you haven't learnt much code yet that may take a little learning, but in my view is well worthwhile as you can control the appearance so much better.
Just don't ever use MS Word to generate html - it creates bloated, non standard and horible cod, which is then difficult to mainttain.
