Differene between html or xhtml

In theory, a lot. Since MSFT chose for so long to not support xhtml, it's effectively dead and development has ended. In practice, the difference is syntax. All tags in xhtml must be closed, where in html, many closing tags are optional. There are other less obvious diffs, but that's the main one.

There are no doubt other important technical differences, but in a pragmatic sense only the syntax is left.

Many developers took to xhtml thinking it was the more advanced of the two. Because of MSFT, it's not. Neither is better than the other. I use the xhtml syntax out of habit; I was admin for an intranet that made use of its xml features combined with the ease of development of html. All my tools are configured for xhtml, and there is no compelling reason to change. :shrug:

cheers,

gary

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The most basic difference is that XHTML is dead and HTML is not.

Basic Was an early simplified programming language designed for ease of entry for people new to programming, later it evolved into Qbasic

1.HTML was designed to display data with focus on how data looks while XML was designed to be a software and hardware independent tool used to transport and store data, with focus on what data is.

2.HTML is a markup language itself while XML provides a framework for defining markup languages.

3.HTML is a presentation language while XML is neither a programming language nor a presentation language.

4.HTML is case insensitive while XML is case sensitive.

5.HTML is used for designing a web-page to be rendered on the client side while XML is used basically to transport data between the application and the database.

6.HTML has it own predefined tags while what makes XML flexible is that custom tags can be defined and the tags are invented by the author of the XML document.

7.HTML is not strict if the user does not use the closing tags but XML makes it mandatory for the user the close each tag that has been used.

8.HTML does not preserve white space while XML does.

9.HTML is about displaying data,hence static but XML is about carrying information,hence dynamic.

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Just want to point out in case the unwary be fooled, that this is a falsehood. HTML was designed to mark up the meaning of text without regard to how it looks.

XHTML is more choosy than HTML—there are some elements that absolutely must appear in the XHTML markup, but which may be omitted if you’re using HTML 4 and earlier versions. These elements include the html, head, and body elements (although why you’d want to omit any of them is a mystery to me). In addition, every element you use in XHTML must have both an opening and closing tag (for example, you’d write <p>This is a paragraph</p> in XHTML, but <p>This is all you need in HTML, as no end tag is required).

//mod edit: Please set off your html source with [code][/code] bbcode tags. See the posting guidelines. Fixed ~gt

Thanks for the help.. Thanks a lot..
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