HTML is document markup language. XHTML is eXtensible HyperText Markup Language is a markup language to describe formatted documents.
Language is built on HTML and is transformed so as to meet the standards of XML. The General Rules for converting HTML to XHTML are:
Declaration for transitional XHTML documents
HTML Code:
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
All tags should be enclosed within the tag, id est, should be the root element for the document.
All XHTML tag elements should be in lower case.
All XHTML tags should have their end tags.
HTML Code:
<p>Example</p>.
Empty tags in XHTML
HTML Code:
<meta />: for meta information (contained in the head section)
<base />: used to specify the base URI and also the target frame for hyperlinks (contained in the head section)
<basefont />: used to specify a base font for the document. Note that attribute 'size' is mandatory
<param />: parameters for applets and objects.
<link />: to specify external stylesheets and other references.
<img />: to include images. Attributes 'src' for the source URI and 'alt' for alternate text are mandatory.
: used for forced line break.
<hr />: for horizontal rules.
<area />: used inside image maps. Attribute 'alt' is mandatory.
<input />: used inside forms for input form elements like buttons, textboxes, textareas, checkboxes and radio buttons.
02-27-2009, 08:35 AM
Re: HTML transform
Linear Mode
