XHTML

The most fundamental Recommendation for the World Wide Web is the HTML Recommendation that defines the Hypertext Markup Language. The most recent change in HTML is the effort to make it compatible with XML, and the result is XHTML. Efforts concerning HTML and XHTML can be found at

Hypertext Markup Language

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/

XHTML 1.0: The Extensible Hypertext Markup Language

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/

XHTML is a reworking of HTML, within the rules of XML, to provide greater compatibility and extensibility.

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