XP Tutorial 9New Perspectives on Creating Web Pages with HTML, XHTML, and XML 1 Working with XHTML...

Tutorial 9 New Perspectives on Creating Web Pages with HTML, XHTML, and XML

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XP

Working with XHTML

Creating a Well-Formed Valid Document

Tutorial 9


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XPObjectives

• Introducing XHTML• Creating a Well-Formed Document• Creating a Valid Document• Creating an XHTML Document• Testing an XHTML Document• Using Style Sheets and XHTML


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XPIntroducing XHTML

• SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) – can be used with almost any type of document stored

in almost any format

– Introduced in the 1980s

– Metalanguage– used to created other languages

• HTML– standards get confusing among browsers

– can be applied inconsistently


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XPIntroducing XHTML

• XML (Extensible Markup Language) – used to design markup languages

• XML documents must be evaluated with an XML parser

• An XML document with correct syntax is a well-formed document

• A well-formed document with correct content and structure is a valid document

• DTD specifies correct content and structure


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XPIntroducing XHTML

• XHTML is a reformulation of HTML, written in XML

Versions of XHTML


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XPDTDs associated with XHTML 1.0

- transitional: supports many of the presentational features of HTML, including the deprecated elements and attributes Best used for older documents that contain deprecated features


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- frameset: used for documents containing frames, and also supports deprecated elements and attributes


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- strict: does not allow any presentational features or deprecated HTML elements and attributes. Does not support frames or inline frames. It is best used for documents that need to strictly conform to the latest standards.


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XPCreating a Well-Formed Document

Rules for well-formed XHTML documents


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XPCreating a Well-Formed Document

• XHTML documents must also include a single root element that contains all other elements– For XHTML, that root element is the html element

• Attribute minimization is when some attributes lack attribute values– XHTML doesn’t allow attribute minimization


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XPAttribute minimization in HTML and XHTML


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XPCreating a Valid Document

• The DTD used depends on the content of the document and the needs of your users

• To support old browsers, use the transitional DTD

• To support old browsers in a framed Web site, use the frameset DTD

• To support more current browsers and want to weed out any use of deprecated features, use the strict DTD


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• Elements not allowed under the strict DTD:– applet - isindex

– basefont - menu

– center - s

– dir - strike

– font - u

– iframe


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• Some attributes are restricted, while others are required in XHTML


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XPAttributes prohibited in the strict DTD


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XPRequired XHTML attributes


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XPCreating an XHTML Document

• The first line of an XTHML document should contain a declaration indicating that the document adheres to the rules and syntax of XML

• XML (and thus XHTML) documents are based on a character set– A character set is a set of abstract symbols

matched to code numbers


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XPCharacter Sets

• Universal Character Set (UCS)

• Unicode

• Character encoding is the process in which bytes are translated back into characters (when a document is sent across the Internet)


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XPAdding an xml Declaration

• To declare that a document is written in XML, enter the following as the first line of the file:

<?xml version=“value” encoding=“type” standalone=“type” ?>

Where the version attribute indicates the XML version of the document, the encoding attribute specifies the character encoding, and the standalone attribute indicates whether the document contains references to an external DTD.


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XPAdding an xml Declaration

• For XHTML documents, use the declaration:

<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“UTF-8” standalone=“no” ?>


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XPThe XML Declaration

• You can also add the DOCTYPE declaration, which tells XML parsers what DTD is associated with the document

<!DOCTYPE root type “id” “url”>


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XPThe xml Namespace

• A namespace is a unique identifier for elements and attributes originating from a particular document type (like XHTML or MathML)

• Two types of namespaces:

- default: applied to a root element and any element within it

<root xmlns=“namespace”>


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XPThe xml Namespace

• local: applies to only select elements

- Each element in the local namespace is marked by a prefix attached to the element name

xmlns: prefix=“namespace”

- Identify any element belonging to that namespace by modifying the element name in the tag:

prefix:element


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XPSetting the XHTML Namespace

• To set XHTML as the default namespace for a document, add the xmlns attribute to the html element with the following value:

<html xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml>


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XPTesting an XHTML Document

• To test your document, you need to send the file to an XML parser or an XHTML validator

• Sometimes the same mistake results in several errors are noted in the report

- fixing one mistake can solve several errors


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XPFixing the errors in the paragraph elements


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XPReport showing a successful validation under XHTML 1.0 transitional


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XPTesting an XHTML Document

• To test under another DTD, you’ll need to change the DOCTYPE declaration

Changing the DOCTYPE declaration to XHTML 1.0 strict


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XPUsing Style Sheets and XHTML

• Parsed character data (PCDATA) is text parsed by a browser or parser

• Unparsed character data (CDATA) is text not processed by the browser or parser


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XPUsing Style Sheets and XHTML

• A CDATA section marks a block of text as CDATA so that parsers ignore any text within it


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XPTips for Converting old HTML Code to XHTML

• Include an xml declaration in the first line of your file so that your document can be accessed by XML parsers

•Add a DOCTYPE declaration for one of the XHTML DTDs and check your document for well-formedness and validity whenever you make a change to the code

•Add the XHTML default namespace to the html element of your document


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• Make sure that all element and attribute names are in lowercase letters and that all attribute values are placed in quotes

•Make sure that all empty elements are entered as one-sided tags. Look especially for improper syntax in the img, hr, and br elements

•Make sure that all two-sided tags are properly closed. Old HTML code often does not have closing tags for the p element


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• Make sure that all inline images contain the alt attribute

•Look for deprecated attributes such as align, bgcolor, and background, and replace them with the float (or text-align), background-color, and background-image styles

•Replace the name attribute with the id attribute

•Fix all instances of attribute minimization


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• Replace the use of the font element with either the span element or with a style that applies the same formatting specified by the font element

•Replace the use of the width attribute in the td or th element with the width style

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