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Copyright © 2003 Pearson Education, Inc. Slide 8-1 Created by Cheryl M. Hughes The Web Wizard’s Guide to XML by Cheryl M. Hughes
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Copyright © 2003 Pearson Education, Inc. Slide 8-2 CHAPTER 8 What’s Next?
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Copyright © 2003 Pearson Education, Inc. Slide 8-3 The Future of XHTML XHTML is quickly becoming accepted as the replacement technology to HTML because of its compatibility with existing browsers and also to new XML technologies and standards Many new technologies are being developed around the XHTML 1.0 standards Future versions of XHTML will be modularized, and will very clearly separate presentation from document content XHTML will evolve into a set of languages and specifications that interact with each other
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Copyright © 2003 Pearson Education, Inc. Slide 8-4 XHTML Technologies XHTML Basic The XHTML Basic Specification was released as a recommendation by the W3C in December of 2000 XHTML Basic was developed for use with small client devices that do not have the processing power for the full element set of XHTML like cell phones, PDA’s and pagers XHTML Basic contains a subset of XHTML elements, including basic text formatting (headings, paragraphs, lists, etc.), hyperlinks, images, basic forms, and tables DTD Declaration: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic10.dtd"> Modularization of XHTML The Modularization of XHTML Specification was released as a recommendation in April of 2001 XHTML Modularization will reorganize the XHTML language by functionality rather than including all functionality into one single language
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Copyright © 2003 Pearson Education, Inc. Slide 8-5 XHTML Technologies XHTML 1.1 – Module-based XHTML The XHTML 1.1 – module-based XHTML Specification was released as a recommendation by the W3C in May 2001 XHTML 1.1 is the base language that can be extended by other XHTML document types The XHTML 1.1 element set does not include presentational elements and is built on XHTML Strict. XHTML 1.1 will rely solely on style sheets for presentational information DTD Declaration: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> XHTML 2.0 The XHTML 2.0 Specification is not yet a released recommendation. It is currently in draft form. Draft 6 was released in May of 2003 Many of the modules in XHTML 2.0 are updates and/or extensions to the modules defined in the Modularization of XHTML 1.0 Specification XHTML 2.0 will not be backward-compatibility with older browsers and relies more heavily on newer browsers with extensive support for XML languages
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Copyright © 2003 Pearson Education, Inc. Slide 8-6 XHTML Technologies XHTML Print XHTML-Print became a W3C candidate recommendation, one of the last steps in the process XHTML is part of the modularization of the XHTML family and is being designed for printing from mobile devices. XHTML-Print is based on XHTML Basic and CSS XForms In January 2004 the W3C released its requirements for XForms 1.1 XForms will likely replace the form elements in the current XHTML specifications XForms will be useable with a wide variety of platforms, including desktop computers, handheld PDAs, information appliances, and even paper XForms is being developed to work with any XML language, not just XHTML
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