Re: XML & XHTML

[Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>]

Michael Collier wrote:

> 
> What you may be missing (unless *I'm* missing something :-) is: what happens
> to your XML pages in a non-XML aware browser. If you are using your XML for
> something other than browser display, then I guess it doesn't matter. But
> XHTML, as I understand it, gives you both: backwards compatibility with
> non-XML browsers, and the ability to make use of the XML model for XML
> browser display, and other purposes.

True - I admit I had't thought of that, probably because my use of XML
isn't web-based. But the next generation of browsers should be
XML-aware. If they are, then XHTML could be obsolete by this time next
year.

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