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Special Edition Using HTML and XHTML (Special Edition Using)
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by Molly E. Holzschlag
Sales Rank: 628959
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$32.67
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Paperback: 700 pages
Publisher: Que; Spl Sub edition May 14, 2002
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0789727315
ISBN-13: 978-0789727312
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.4 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
Product Description
Special Edition Using HTML & XHTML is a comprehensive Web publishing reference, providing practical solutions to real-world Web development problems. Author Molly Holzschlag starts by explaining how XHTML differs from HTML and why it's necessary, but quickly moves beyond a mere comparison of the differences. The reader learns which tools are best, how to code HTML & XHTML, and the basic principles of Web publishing and graphic design. The book also shows how to integrate graphics, stylesheets, frames and multimedia into XHTML Web pages. Later chapters cover XHTML's relationship to XML and creating content for alternative devices including pagers, cell phones, and hand held devices.
Back Cover Copy
Special Edition Using HTML & XHTML is a comprehensive Web publishing reference, providing practical solutions to real-world Web development problems. Author Molly Holzschlag starts by explaining how XHTML differs from HTML and why it's necessary, but quickly moves beyond a mere comparison of the differences. The reader learns which tools are best, how to code HTML & XHTML, and the basic principles of Web publishing and graphic design. The book also shows how to integrate graphics, stylesheets, frames and multimedia into XHTML Web pages. Later chapters cover XHTML's relationship to XML and creating content for alternative devices including pagers, cell phones, and hand held devices.
Customer Reviews & Comments
This book, like most other primers on XHTML, tries to take the minor differences between standard HTML and XHTML, and turn it into a full blown manuscript. The truth is, if you already know HTML, then you already know most of what you need for XHTML. XHTML differs little from HTML, except for the following points (I'm using brackets here on purpose so as not to mark up this review) : - XHTML is case sensitive, e.g. the tags [h1] and [H1] are not equivalent. - tags must be nested properly, e.g. [b][i]your text here[/b][/i] is incorrect in a "well formed" document. - certain tags that take no attributes must be terminated with a slash, e.g. [br /] - XHTML can use "modules" (and good luck trying to understand that chapter in the book). That's about all you need to know about XHTML. Throw in a DTD definition and you're done. But the book does a poor job of explaining just what a DTD is and why you need one, other than the XML gods just saying you need one. Much of the book is also C.I.P.U. to HTML users. CSS is given two short chapters with little explanation of why you need CSS and how it can help you manage your web pages. And then it's onto XML, with the same lack of explanation. But, as with most CSS and XML primers, this is typically the case. Everybody is touting the value of XML, but almost nobody can tell you why or how to use this new technology. And this book is no different. I gave the book two stars because of its one outstanding feature, the references in Appendix C & D. The book is worth having around just for those two sections. In that sense you might want to pick up a used copy for much less than a new one.
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Special Edition Using HTML and XHTML (Special Edition Using)
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Price: $32.67
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