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From: parv <parv_@yahoo.com>
To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@aa.net>
Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, f-doc <freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: (website) move towards xhtml
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this was, on the fateful occasion around Aug 13 14:29 -0400,
sent by Gary W. Swearingen                                           
>
> parv <parv_@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
...

> > advantages:
> > - w3c's update of html 4.x; html 4 has been deprecated in favor of 
> >   xhtml. (inferred from the 1st link below)
> 
> Doesn't look like an advantage to me.  Fairly irrelevant.

well, having the time to convert before html standard becomes 
unsupported seems to be an advantage to me at least.


> > - xhtml-strict dtd takes us towards xml; in the end will fit much more
> >   nicely w/ css than existing html (again w3c propaganda)... but who 
> >   knows what else would have, or have not, had happened by then?
> 
> XHTML, strict or not, *is* XML as I understand it.  That was the main
> advantage for my usage.  It allows one to use XML-savy tools and
> libraries on it. But since you've already got your source in SGML, you
> don't gain much from that feature.  It might help people grabbing your
> *HTML.

yes, that's my general idea too. 


-- 
 so, do you like word games or scrabble?
	 - parv

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