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Markup language which places HTML in XML form

Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) is part of the family of XML markup languages which mirrors or extends versions of the widely used HyperText Markup Language (HTML), the language in which Web pages are formulated. Wikipedia →

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Read the overview: XHTMLA 5-minute orientation
Skim a recent paper: <xhtml:span xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">Notes on…</xhtml:span>Influential work since 2022
Pick up a classic book: Beginning Web programming with HTML, XHTML, and CSSThe most-reprinted book on the subject
Read the landmark paper: <xhtml:span xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">Travel-associated gonorrhoea in four Nordic countries, 2008 to 2013</xhtml:span>Cited 28 times
Go sideways: Document type declarationA closely related topic
Go sideways: HTMLA closely related topic

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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

<xhtml:span xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">Travel-associated gonorrhoea in four Nordic countries, 2008 to 2013</xhtml:span>

Julien Beauté, Susan Cowan, Eija Hiltunen-Back · 2017 · Eurosurveillance · 28 citations
<xhtml:span xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">Association between SARS-CoV-2 infection and Kawasaki-like multisystem inflammatory syndrome: a retrospective matched case–control study, Paris, France, April to May 2020</xhtml:span>

Julie Toubiana, Corinne Levy, Slimane Allali · 2020 · Eurosurveillance · 10 citations
JChemTidy: A Tool for Converting Chemical Web Document Collections to an XHTML Representation

Georgios V. Gkoutos, Philip R. Kenway, Henry S. Rzepa · 2001 · Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences · 1 citations
<xhtml:span xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">On Epistemology in Researching the Teaching and Learning of Literacy, Literature, and the Language Arts: An Interview with David Poveda, Interviewed by Judith Kalman  </xhtml:span>

David Poveda, Judy Kalman · 2023 · Research in the Teaching of English · 1 citations
Innovations Affecting Us -- XHTML Facilitates the Transition from HTML to XML

Norman Desmarais · 2003 · Against the Grain · 1 citations
<xhtml:span xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">Designing <span class="jp-italic">from</span> Youth Media: Digital Stories as Telescopes toward Justice </xhtml:span>

Cherise McBride, Hillary Scott, Monica Clark · 2023 · English Journal · 1 citations
The Comparison of WML, cHTML, and XHTML-MP in m-Commerce

Jongwook Woo, Minseok Jang · 2008 · Journal of Software · 0 citations
Review: XHTML Essentials

T. Stock · 2002 · The Computer Bulletin · 0 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

<xhtml:span xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">Notes on…</xhtml:span>

Yvonne McGrotty · 2022 · BSAVA Companion · 0 citations
<xhtml:span xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">Epistemological/Ontological Interview: La epistemología en su trabajo de investigación sobre la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de la literatura, las artes del lenguaje y la cultura escrita. Una entrevista a David Poveda, entrevistada por<br />Judith Kalman (On Epistemology in Researching the Teaching and Learning of Literacy, Literature, and the Language Arts) </xhtml:span>

David Poveda, Judith Kalman · 2023 · Research in the Teaching of English · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

Beginning Web programming with HTML, XHTML, and CSSJon Duckett · 2004
HTML, XHTML & CSS For DummiesEd Tittel, Jeff Noble · 2008
HTMLThomas A. Powell · 1998
HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSSElizabeth Castro · 2002
HTML, XHTML, and CSS bibleBryan Pfaffenberger, Brian Pfaffenberger · 2004
Web Development and Design Foundations with HTML5Terry Felke-Morris · 2012
Bulletproof Web DesignDan Cederholm · 2005
Beginning HTML, XHTML, CSS, and JavaScriptJon Duckett · 2010

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🔗 Related topics

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