XHTML is a reformulation of
HTML in
XML. People like
Jeffrey Zeldman have lead a bold charge in getting web designers and developers to write their
TagSoup in XHTML instead of HTML, with great success.
Just converting your web site Valid XHTML 1.0!
✓ doesn't help anything—it's going to amount to wasted man-hours inserting slashes all over the place to properly close your tags. If you're going to bother to learn a whole new way of writing web pages, you might as well use
SemanticMarkup and make your site is
accessible.
For more information, see
http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml (provided you aren't using Safari, which is unable to handle the
intricacies of the
text/plain MIME type).
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