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Head First HTML with CSS

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xml and html, and xhtml<br />

Frank<br />

266 Chapter 7<br />

This is like déjà vu.<br />

Weren’t we standing in exactly<br />

the same place in the last chapter,<br />

but moving to <strong>HTML</strong> 4.01? Now we<br />

have to move to X<strong>HTML</strong>, and I<br />

don’t even know what that is!<br />

Jim<br />

Joe<br />

Joe: I can’t believe our manager knows what it is.<br />

Frank: Hey guys, X<strong>HTML</strong> is the new standard for<br />

<strong>HTML</strong>. There’s not going to be an <strong>HTML</strong> 5; the new<br />

standard is X<strong>HTML</strong> 1.0.<br />

Jim: That’s great, but do we need to be so cutting edge?<br />

Frank: Actually, X<strong>HTML</strong> 1.0 has been around since<br />

2000, so it’s not as cutting edge as it sounds.<br />

Jim: What’s the “X” for? Because it sounds cool...<br />

X-Men, X-Games, X-Files, gen-X, and now X-<strong>HTML</strong>?<br />

Frank: Good one, Jim, but no. The X in X<strong>HTML</strong> is for<br />

“eXtensible,” which is another way of saying it’s based on<br />

something called XML.<br />

Joe: Don’t the software guys use that to store some of our<br />

data?<br />

Frank: Yup, they sure do. XML stands for eXtensible<br />

Markup Language.<br />

Joe: Uh oh, I see some comparison to Hypertext Markup<br />

Language coming.<br />

Frank: Yes, exactly, Joe. XML is a markup language like<br />

<strong>HTML</strong>, but you can use it to do all kinds of things beyond<br />

“marking up” Web pages. Here, let me show you...

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