Future-proof XHTML/XML Markup

Those of us that wrote markup for websites more that four (4) years ago are aware of the situation where markup styles and standards become obsolete. Whether or not this could have been prevented by coding markup differently is a question I have had to ask myself when confronted with having to rewrite and improve upon code and website markup that has proven to be buggy, redundant, and far from the contemporary coding and XHTML markup standards

XML provides the promise and possibility of writing markup that can fit and be compatible with the coding and software standards of the future. XML by its definition is extensible and virtually unlimited in possibilities. Being that XML data can be parsed based on a DTD, and transformed using XSLT into virtually and data presentation format or proprietary format.

Conclusion
Data representation in XML enables you to transform it based on the markup standards of today, as well as those of the future.