The Extensible HyperText Markup Language, or XHTML, is a
markup language that has the same depth of expression as
HTML, but also conforms to
XML syntax.Whereas HTML is an application of
Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), a very flexible markup language, XHTML is an application of
XML, a more restrictive subset of SGML. Because they need to be well-formed, true XHTML documents allow for automated processing to be performed using standard XML tools—unlike HTML, which requires a relatively complex, lenient, and generally custom
parser. XHTML can be thought of as the intersection of HTML and XML in many respects, since it is a reformulation of HTML in XML. XHTML 1.0 became a
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Recommendation on
January 26,
2000. XHTML 1.1 became a W3C recommendation on
May 31,
2001.
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