God's gift to the XHTML student

or what xhtml resource did you learn the most from?

[lorax]

Alrighty then. I've been wooed and am going to embark into learning XHTML. I'm curious to learn what everyone found to be their most trusted resource for learning XHTML as they started down this path. Twas it a book, a web site, tutorial that came with a book?

[brotherhood of LAN]

hi lorax

i would recommend w3schools to anyone new to a subject like this, before you part with any money :) (oops,btw its a website if u aint heard of it)

[pcguru333]

For me it was a combo of my HTML Editor, this site, w3c.org, and w3shools.com.

There are a lot of online resources.

[madcat]

I think you'll see that the transition is an easy one. This is a great start...

[nypl.org ]

[papabaer]

Welcome to "the Family" lorax! ;)

The transition will be easier that you think. XHTML is consistant, there are no "bendable rules" or hacks. Just clean straight forward mark-up.

[Duckula]

Lisp and the kind.

Take a look at this:

(html 
 (head  
 (title "Hello world") 
  (meta '((http-equiv "Content-Type") 
      (content "text/html") 
      (charset "iso-8859-1"))) 
  (link '((rel "stylesheet") 
      (title "default") 
      (href "css/style.css") 
      (type "text/css")))) 
 (body 
 (h1 "Hello world!") 
 (p "Paragraph... more text..."))) 

It is a common belief now that xml is just another version of lisp with a make up. A bit of knowledge on functional languages was very helpful to me to understand XHTML.

[bird]

Lisp and the kind.

Maybe we should rename HTML to LISA then? ;)

Lots of Insiduously Silly Angle-brackets

[Duckula]

I'd vote for that :)

[lorax]

Thanks All.

So not one of you has a book in your collection - say O'Reilly's HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide - just for reference?

I must be an odd duck because I have this thing for books. I find them much easier to read and refer to than reading from a resource on the web. That being said, I do refer to W3C as THE final authority and come here for guidance when I'm in a jam. It's fair to say I count on the web as the most current - and the best resource for the nitty gritty details. I usually include a good print resource, though, just to round out my knowledge (and be kind to my eyes).

[moonbiter]

XHTML 1.0 is pretty much HTML 4.01 with several changes that are detailed in Section 4 of the W3C's XHTML recommendation. So just about any good HTML 4 reference is a good XHTML 1 reference as well. That being said ...

So not one of you has a book in your collection - say O'Reilly's HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide - just for reference?

I do. I used _Learn HTML 4.0 in 21 Days_ to learn HTML, and O'Reilly's guide to learn HTML (although it's taken more than 21 days -- I am still learning new things!).

Online, I find that WDG's HTMLHelp is a great resource. Also, as much as it pains me to write it, Microsoft also has a really good resource for the IE implementation of CSS/HTML/DHTML on its MSDN site.

[ergophobe]

xml is just another version of lisp

You know, I've wondered about this. Are there any Scheme/Lisp backends (i.e. instead of PHP)? I love Scheme.

In answer to the original question, I find one of the best resources for learning XHTML is the W3c Validator. Build pages, submit and repeat as necessary.

Tom