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> > XHTML vastly simplifies machine processing for all sorts of > > purposes. > > Yep, this is the only concrete benefit of XHTML I've seen. It makes it > easier for people to screen scrape your site. I find this to be a very > dubious benefit at best. > Yeah, it's shows the narcissism of most developers. "Please rewrite your page in some buzzword-compliant gobbledy-gook subset of XML that is less reliable and harder to test than what you were already doing, and then I can theoretically write a screenscraper". For people who really want repurposable data; we already have capability to do XML+XSLT+CSS. My RSS feed and OPML feed are both pure XML (no XHTML crap) and render nicely in IE and Mozilla. XHTML is a Frankenstein.
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