Re: Promotion of XHTML

John Lewis said:
> But you're going to extra trouble
> for no gain (other than XHTML's "coolness"). If you're writing HTML,
> what's the purpose of writing it as XHTML and then
> making sure it's sort of HTML, in addition to worrying about browser
> incompatibilities *because it's XHTML*?

Personally I think it's easier to write in XHTML because it's tidier.

I don't have to bother remembering which elements need to be closed,
because they all do.

I don't have to worry about an untidy mix of <UPPER CASE>, <lower case>
and <Mixed Case> tags, because they all have to be lower case.

I don't need to care about whether a particular attribute needs quote
marks around it or not... because I can be sure that it does.

It's a much more symmetrical and consistant markup language, so (in my
book) is much easier to use.

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