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Mobile Web technologies > XHTML 1.1 (HTML 4.01) - Pg. 54

2.6.5 XForms XForms is W3C's specification for Web forms that can be used with desktop computers, hand-held devices, etc. The disadvantage of the HTML Web forms is that there is no separation of purpose from presentation. XForms separate the data and logic of a form from its presentation. Also, XForms are device-independent. XForms use XML for transporting the data that is displayed on the form and the data that is submitted from the form. HTML is used for the data display. For more information about XForms, see: http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms 2.6.6 XHTML 1.1 (HTML 4.01) Extended HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) is an extension to HTML 4, which supports document types that are XML-based. It is intended to be used as a language for XML-conforming content as well as for HTML 4-conforming user agents. The advantages of XHTML are as follows: Since XHTML documents are XML conforming, they can be viewed, edited,