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XHTML vs. HTML

The technical base of MTE is a non-validating XML processor.

It supports XHTML. This version takes HTML as an XML application. Actual HTML browsers can render XML without problems.

In difference to HTML 4 and below, there are these technical restrictions:

Closing tags must not be omitted. That means, no opening <p> without closing </p>.
Empty tags are written with a slash before closing angle bracket, e. g. <br />, <hr />, <img />.
The names of tags and attributes are lower case. In HTML, mixed case was allowed.
Attribte values are written in their long form. Boolean attributes get as value their name. All values are "quoted", even numbers. Instead of <table border> which was allowed earlier, now it must be <table border="1">.
Diffrently to HTML, it isn't any more possible to "switch off" the parser inside the elements <style>...</style> and <script>...</script>. If there is need for the characters < and &, there are these solutions:
- Put the code in an external file.
- Package the code inside the element <![CDATA[...]]>. Problem: this element is not known by the popular browsers.

The editor takes the efforts of XML-conformous notation off you as well as lower-casing of tags and attributes.

If you write the short form of an attribute, e. g. <table border|>, then the editor corrects automatically to <table border="border"> when leaving tag editing mode.

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