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Encyclopedia > XHTML Basic

XHTML Basic is an XML-based structured markup language primarily used for simple (mainly handheld) user agents, typically mobile devices. The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose markup language. ... A specialized markup language using SGML is used to write the electronic version of the Oxford English Dictionary. ... A handheld is most often used to refer to: A personal digital assistant (PDA). ... A user agent is the client application used with a particular network protocol; the phrase is most commonly used in reference to those which access the World Wide Web. ...


XHTML Basic is a subset of XHTML 1.1, defined using XHTML Modularization including a reduced set of modules for document structure, images, forms, basic tables, and object support. XHTML Basic is suitable for mobile phones, PDAs, pagers, and settop boxes. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into XHTML. (Discuss) XHTML modularization provides a means for defining modules of XHTML to allow subsetting and extending XHTML in a controlled way. ... Personal digital assistants (PDAs) are handheld computers that were originally designed as personal organizers, but became much more versatile over the years. ... A pager is an electronic device used to contact people via a paging network. ... Interactive television describes any number of efforts to allow viewers to interact with television content as they view. ...


It will replace WML and C-HTML as more compliant user agents are developed. Wireless Markup Language is the primary content format for devices that implement the WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) specification based on XML, such as mobile phones. ... C-HTML (for Compact HTML) is a subset of the HTML markup language that works on DoCoMos i-mode mobile phones. ...


One large advantage XHTML Basic has over WML and C-HTML is that XHTML Basic pages can be rendered differently in web browsers and on handhelds, without the need for two different versions of the same page. An example of a web browser (Internet Explorer), displaying the English Wikipedia main page. ...


XHTML Mobile Profile is an Open Mobile Alliance profile based on XHTML Basic; this effort targets hand phones specifically by adding mobile phone-specific elements to XHTML Basic. Work is on hand to converge XHTML MP and XHTML Basic. XHTML Mobile Profile (XHTML MP) is a hypertextual computer language standard designed specifically for mobile phones and other resource-constrained devices. ... The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) is a standards body which develops open standards for the mobile industry. ...


In 2006, the specification was revised to version 1.1. Six new features have been incorporated into the language in order to better serve the small-device community.


DOCTYPE

To validate as XHTML Basic, a document must contain the following Document Type Declaration, or DOCTYPE: A Document Type Declaration, or DOCTYPE, associates a particular SGML or XML document with a Document Type Definition (DTD). ...

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic11.dtd">

A complete valid and well-formed example is: A valid XML document is defined by the W3C as a well-formed XML document which also conforms to the rules of a Document Type Definition (DTD) or an XML Schema (XSD), which W3C supports as an alternate to DTD. This term should not be confused with a well-formed... A well-formed XML document is defined as an XML document that has correct XML syntax. ...

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic11.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head> <title>Hello</title> </head> <body> <p>Hello <a href="http://example.org/">world</a>.</p> </body> </html> 

Served with a MIME type of "application/xhtml+xml". Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is an Internet Standard that extends the format of e-mail to support: text in character sets other than US-ASCII; non-text attachments; multi-part message bodies; and header information in non-ASCII character sets. ...


See also

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. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Comparison of document markup languages. ... The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of document markup languages. ...

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XHTML Basic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (155 words)
XHTML Basic is an XML-based structured markup language primarily used for simple (mainly handheld) user agents, typically mobile devices.
XHTML Basic is a subset of XHTML, including a minimal set of XHTML modules for document structure, images, forms, basic tables, and object support.
XHTML Mobile Profile is a Nokia project based on XHTML Basic; this effort targets hand phones specifically by adding mobile phone-specific elements to XHTML Basic.
XHTML - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1303 words)
The XHTML 2.0 draft is controversial because it breaks backwards compatibility with all previous versions, and is therefore in effect a new markup language created to circumvent (X)HTML's limitations rather than being simply a new version.
XHTML Basic: A special "light" version of XHTML for devices which cannot use the full XHTML set, primarily used on handhelds such as mobile phones.
Character encoding may be specified at the beginning of an XHTML document in the XML declaration and within a meta http-equiv element.
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