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> >First, the poor support for XHTML extends far beyond Microsoft. The > >market for tools which consume and produce HTML is vastly more mature. > emit things that clearly ain't HTML. So, is this just your impression > or did you do some representative research on this matter? I did not, There is no point even having a conversation with someone who tries to argue that the market for XHTML tools is even close to as mature as for HTML. > web that do not pass the W3C MarkUp Validator seems to tell a different Staggering lack of user-empathy. 99% of people writing web pages do not care whether it validates in some markup validator. This is not what people care about. > How is XSLT exactly relevant here? As far as I understand, XSLT would > serve to transform some XML to some other XML or other format, what > format do you have in mind here? Surely it would be some kind of > recognized markup language that provides means to link other documents > or to offer the user means to communicate with the site in some sens, > e.g. through forms, so it seems that you would send some arbitrary > markup to the browser only to have it transform it to HTML or XHTML, > so, why not just deliver that HTML/XHTML to the browser? Ugh; I'll repeat myself verbatim: "Users should either stick with HTML; or if they want to have a pure machine-processable architecture, move to XML+XSLT+CSS." How is that confusing? If you want to render it in a UI, use HTML. If you want to parse it using some machine process (like a news aggregator) use XML. XHTML is just some crazy in-between Frankenstein. It is neither good at machine processing (try to build an ecosystem of news aggregators on the brilliant idea of screen-scraping RSS from XHTML), nor is it good at rendering in user agents. Choose the right tool for the task -- in this case, the right tool will be either HTML or XML; not some abominable hybrid. Next we will have the nabobs crying that PNG is inferior because it is not well-formed XML...
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