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title: XHTML is now a standard
date: "2000-12-26T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 2002
description: XHTML is now an official W3C standard, providing a subset of XHTML 1.1 designed for portable devices like mobile phones. It offers a streamlined alternative to HTML for building web content on resource-constrained hardware.
keywords: [xhtml basic, w3c recommendation, mobile web, web standards, markup languages, portable devices]
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[XHTML is now a standard](http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xhtml-basic-20001219/). It can be used instead of HTML for portable devices.