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Since 1990 HTML or HyperText Markup Language has been the

language recommended for writing Web pages in. And it has been

very successful (you didn't need me to tell you that). But HTML

has its problems. Without going into specifics, as it's not the

subject of this article, HTML has become a mess. To sort this

mess out the World Wide Web Consortium, the standards body

for the Web came up with XHTML in 1999. XHTML stands for

eXtensible Hyper Text Markup Language and is written in a

language called XML or eXtensible Markup Language. As the

name implies XHTML has the capability of being extended. You

can use extra modules to do things with your pages that weren't

possible with HTML. The long-term goal is that your Web pages

will be able to be understood by computers as well as humans.

If this doesn't make sense, allow me to explain. You may be

thinking that computers already understand Web pages

because you use a computer to view them. This is true. But

computers only understand how to display your pages, not

what they mean. Imagine if computers understood what they

meant, you could tell your computer to go and visit all of your

local supermarket's Web sites and tell you which one is the

cheapest for this weeks shopping. Your computer could visit

the news sites around the world and bring back the latest

headlines that relate to things you are interested in. The

possibilities are endless. Hopefully you now see why XHTML

is important. I decided to write this tutorial to teach you XHTML

from scratch. The main reason for this is that I couldn't find a

beginners XHTML tutorial anywhere, there are plenty of HTML

beginner's articles, and plenty of XHTML introductions for those

who can already do HTML, but it seems logical to me that if you

are starting learning Web Design now then you might as well

use XHTML from the word go. So if you're still with me, go.

by: ALFAHAD KHAN

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