Re: Oracle Help or Java Help -- how to choose?
XHTML is still too formatting-driven and not structural enough,
compared with other XML. You could construct a document formatted with
dozens of nested tables, and it might be perfectly valid XHTML.
You can write spaghetti code, too, and the application will still run, just not very efficiently. XHTML is no more formatting-driven than you make it.
I use something like what follows to begin each new site. It's perfectly valid and well-formed XHTML1 Strict. More importantly it's semantically coherent. All formatting is abstracted to the presentation layer.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Quillio.com</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
color: #000;
background: #fff;
}
body, th, td { /* Let's normalize text sizes, shall we? */
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 100%;
voice-family: "\"}\"";
voice-family: inherit;
font-size: 90%;
}
#home {
}
#header {
}
#content {
}
#footer {
}
</style>
</head>
<body id="home">
<div id="header">
<h1>Quillio.com</h1>
<p>Lou Quillio's Beverage Center</p>
</div>
<div id="content">
<h1>This is an H1</h1>
<h2>This is an H2</h2>
<h3>This is an H3</h3>
<h4>This is an H4</h4>
<h5>This is an H5</h5>
<h6>This is an H6</h6>
<p>This is some paragraph text.</p>
<ul>
<li>This is a list item.</li>
<li>This is a list item.</li>
<li>This is a list item.
<ul>
<li>This is a nested list item.</li>
<li>This is a nested list item.</li>
<li>This is a nested list item.</li>
<li>This is a nested list item.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>This is a list item.</li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li>This is a list item.</li>
<li>This is a list item.
<ol>
<li>This is a nested list item.</li>
<li>This is a nested list item.</li>
<li>This is a nested list item.</li>
<li>This is a nested list item.</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>This is a list item.</li>
<li>This is a list item.</li>
</ol>
<blockquote>
<p>This is a blockquote.</p>
</blockquote>
<table border="1" cellpadding="5">
<tr>
<th>Row 1, Column 1</th>
<th>Row 1, Column 2</th>
<th>Row 1, Column 3</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Row 2, Column 1</td>
<td>Row 2, Column 2</td>
<td>Row 2, Column 3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Row 3, Column 1</td>
<td>Row 3, Column 2</td>
<td>Row 3, Column 3</td>
</tr>
</table>
<code>This is some code.</code>
<pre>This is some pre-formatted text.</pre>
</div>
<div id="footer"></div>
</body>
</html>
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