XHTML

XHTML stands for Extensible Hypertext Transfer Markup Language. XHTML is HTML based on XML. It is used to make websites and webpages.

XHTML is much more strict then ordinary HTML. For example, you have to close all tags, even those without a closing tag by self-closing them, like this:

Incorrect:

<br>

Correct:

<br />

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