HTML , SHTML , XML

India
December 1, 2006 12:38pm CST
what is the difference
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neo2neo
@neo2neo (461)
• India
2 Jan 07
The main similarities & Differences in html, xhtml and xml- HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. An HTML file is a text file containing small markup tags, that tell the browser how to display the page. HTML files have an htm or html file extension. XHTML (EXtensible HyperText Markup Language) is a stricter and cleaner version of HTML. It is HTML defined as an XML application. XHTML almost identical to HTML 4.01 and is aimed to replace HTML. XML stands for EXtensible Markup Language. HTML was designed to display data and to focus on how data looks, whereas XML was designed to describe data and to focus on what data is! XML is a markup language much like HTML where you have to define your own tags. XML is recommended by www.W3C.org (World Wide Web Consortium)
neo2neo
@neo2neo (461)
• India
2 Jan 07
A Web file with the suffix of ".shtml" (rather than the usual ".htm") is referred to as a server-side include which can display server generated content on the page. For example, a .shtml file could contain a counter or other server generated content
web2samus
@web2samus (255)
• Uruguay
11 Apr 07
oh great! I didn't kewn about that shtml terminology thanks! there is other (foolish) term that is DHTML and it's used when you have a page that is Dinamically altered thru DOM and JavaScript