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    Posted: 23 April 2005 at 8:13pm
Could someone explain to me the advantages to using XHTML Strict and CSS v's XHTML Transitional?
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Points: 26 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 April 2005 at 6:52pm
Of course someone can, that someone could for instance be me :)

anyways, XHTML strict has as great advantage that it has to be valid which means that programming errors will not be allowed, and that is a good thing believe me. Also since XHTML is a product of mixed HTML and XML it leaves us with better programming options (for instance better forms) and semantic web applications are capable of dealing with XHTML.

CSS versus XHTML ... well I think its better to combine both strenghts, because CSS is a style language and XHTML a mark-up language; the power of CSS can really take a lot of work out of your hands ... and XHTML by far gives a lot of programming power and increased performance. Try to hit http://www.w3schools.com and find some fine documents teaching you the stuff.

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I like XML for dealing with data from forms or db's, but if you're not going to apply an xml stylesheet or transformation, you get relatively little by going to XML.
 
If the value of the data affects the content/display of the page, XHTML is very useful. This example http://www.netcapability.info/monitor/default.asp takes a large XML file and applies an XSLT to it.
 
IMHO, HTML 4.01 Strict doctype is far more useful for day-to-day tasks.

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Which to use probably depends on the primary browser of your visitors. If they can handle it, go strict. If they need backward compatablility hacks, go traditional.
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You can validate your CSS and XHTML at www.w3.org 

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