Free online XHTML book.

Reading the actual Web standards can be a bit confusing, so a book that delivers the information in an easy-to-read manner is appealing. HTML Dog: The Best-Practice Guide to XHTML and CSS by Patrick Griffiths promises to give you everything you need to know to create Web pages, while observing Web standards and accessibility issues along the way. I’m pleased to report that this book does a nice job of meeting its objective.

A collection of 11 FAQs/tutorials tips on XHTML inline elements and tags. Clear answers are provided with tutorial exercises on inline elements like: strong, em, code, sub, sup, del, ins, big, small, br, script.

A collection of 8 FAQs/tutorials tips on XHTML image and image map elements. Clear answers are provided with tutorial exercises on inline images and image maps: image elements and image sizes; floating images and animated images, server-side and client-side image maps.

A collection of 16 FAQs/tutorials tips on XHTML hyper links and URLs. Clear answers are provided with tutorial exercises on anchor tags/elements, URL structures, different formats of URLs, hyper links to image, music, PDF and ZIP files, opening documents in new windows.

A collection of 25 FAQs/tutorials tips on XHTML forms and input fields. Clear answers are provided with tutorial exercises on forms and input fields: form elements and submission methods; input elements and input types like text, password, radio, checkbox, hidden, submit, file, image, button; dropdown lists and text areas; multiple forms.

Oxygen comes with XHTML catalog and document templates so that you can start creating XHTML documents right away. Also a ready to use sample is provided in the samples project giving you a head start when working with XHTML. It allows a very flexible document creation management through document templates. You can easily create new XHTML document templates from the editor content and you can publish your templates to share them with other users. HTML documents can be converted during load (imported) to XML allowing you to benefit from the XML support like XPath queries and XSL transformations for instance. During this process you can also associate an XHTML DTD with the new converted document (either the strict or the transitional XHTML DTD) so the converted document is ready to be validated against the specified DTD.

Web demo of Gecko running as a headless, concurrent server and generating PDF and other web delivery formats

A 8-part article series describing the process of building modular, structured and valid XHTML Web pages using the PHP server-side scripting language.

Programming with web standards in mind, although vastly ignored, is becoming more and more important. It almost seems it took too long to promote ASP.NET. Now that we're over the hill and "this stuff works" it is about time to start paying attention to web standards. In this article you will learn how to implement a response filter and plug it into the ASP.NET pipeline. The filter will transform outgoing HTML into XHTML 1.0-compliant markup.

An introduction to XHTML, and a large and growing list of XHTML resources. Like this one. Keep up to date by subscribing to the category RSS feed.

HTML and XHTML Frequently Answered Questions

The HTML Working Group has released the sixth public Working Draft of XHTML 2.0. A modularized language without presentation elements, XHTML 2 takes HTML back to its roots in document structuring. The draft includes an early implementation of XHTML 2.0 in RELAX NG.

It's been more than four years since XHTML replaced HTML 4 as the standard markup for Web documents, according to the W3C, and yet most Web builders still haven't switched to XHTML. That's a puzzling observation considering that XHTML boasts several advantages over the older HTML standard, and you can implement the new standard with only modest changes to your code.

For Web developers, the learning process never seems to end. New technologies are constantly being developed, the manipulation of multimedia seems to know no bounds, the proliferation of knowledge, distribution and programming languages continue to develop and grow, and, of course, design standards are constantly being upgraded in an effort to keep up with it all.

XHTML expert Molly Holzschlag walks you through the basics of XHTML, shows how it compares to HTML, and tells what it means for the world of Web development.

In this chapter from her book Special Edition Using XHTML, Molly Holzschlag discusses several complex and historical issues surrounding HTML -- how it became what it is today and how it can be fixed. While the current problems with Web markup are not necessarily our fault, they do exist at many levels and have therefore become our responsibility. This chapter is an honest assessment of where we as Web authors have been, where we are today, and where we need to go to make our lives and work less frustrating and more progressive.

XML expert Benoit Marchal discusses the differences among XML, HTML, and XHTML, including coherence, modularization, and where we go from here.

Use your beginning XHTML skills to mark up a real-world design project. This is the first step in Jeffrey Zeldman's "teaching by doing" XHTML plan.

Easily map form elements to XML nodes using XPath, HashMap, and dom4J