XHTML
Proper noun
Meaning
XHTML
Initialism of Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (a reformulation of HTML as an XML application.)
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A document sent with the XHTML MIME type is expected to be well-formed XML; syntax errors may cause the browser to fail to render it.
Aside from the different opening declarations for a document, the differences between an HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0 document—in each of the corresponding DTDs—are largely syntactic.
Alas, XHTML was not long for this world.
A valid document adheres to the content specification for XHTML, which describes the document structure.
A well-formed XHTML document adheres to all the syntax requirements of XML.
Anyone with even a smidgen of familiarity with HTML or XHTML can look at the markup and figure out how to adapt it to their particular needs.