Re: XHTML question

Raj,

Can't help you with another site as I tend to make exclusive use of HWG and
W3C, but I can answer your second question.  Yes, attributes also need to be
lower case.  The reason is that XML (which XHTML now conforms to) is case
sensitive.  I know you would like another reference, but I found this info
in the XHTML spec., section 4- Differences with HTML 4.  Don't know if the
W3C's online validator has incorporated all the changes, so a page with
upper case attributes may validate anyway.... but we know better :-)

Also, to answer your question way back on 5/9 (Re: Difference 'twixt XHTML
and XML?).  I honestly can't answer your question on a technical level,
however, I was merely using that analogy because this is what I have come to
understand on what I have read about the subject.  I appears to me, that in
a few years, the language of recommendation by the W3C for writing web pages
will be XML and not HTML and XHTML is just a way for us to make the
transition easier.  I could be wrong, but this is what I believe to be true.
Sorry for not responding on this earlier.

Steve

> I was just wondering if there is any (accessible -- ie not the W3C
> reference :o)  ) site out there that tells me what I have to do to be
XHTML
> 1 compatible.
>
> Also, I know that for XHTML, all tags have to be in lower case (grr..) but
> what about attributes?  Eg, if I have <.table BORDER="1">, would this
> validate?

>From 5/9/00:
> > (Just as the CD replaced the record, XML will replace HTML)
>
> The above sentence has confused me.  As far as I was aware, XML is a
> subset of SGML, which is a meta-language.  HTML is a concrete
> implementation of SGML, so how can XML (a meta-language?) replace
> HTML (a 'proper' language)?  Or have I misunderstood sume fundamental
> fact?

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