> > XHTML vastly simplifies machine processing for all sorts of
> > purposes.
>
> Yep, this is the only concrete benefit of XHTML I've seen. It makes it
> easier for people to screen scrape your site. I find this to be a very
> dubious benefit at best.
>
Yeah, it's shows the narcissism of most developers. "Please rewrite
your page in some buzzword-compliant gobbledy-gook subset of XML that is
less reliable and harder to test than what you were already doing, and
then I can theoretically write a screenscraper".
For people who really want repurposable data; we already have capability
to do XML+XSLT+CSS. My RSS feed and OPML feed are both pure XML (no
XHTML crap) and render nicely in IE and Mozilla. XHTML is a
Frankenstein.
