Reasons to Prefer XHTML Conversion over HTML

The preferable choice of markup languages like HTML/XHTML plays a very important role in forming the basis for PSD to CSS conversion. This is for the reason that the style sheet of a website is created in accordance to the elements of the markup language being used. The two most popular conversion processes in this category are PSD to HTML and PSD to XHTML. Both these markup languages possess their unique and strong characters that are separately utilized by different set of developers.

HTML is the most commonly used mark up language that has been used by the developers for many years. However, with changing times HTML has lost its significance as it is said to lack some essential modern day features that allow developers to innovate web designs. Due to this reason, XHTML was brought into existence by experts. XHTML is an HTML extension that has been strategically combined with the useful features of XML language. Considering the useful features of XHTML also led many developers to go for HTML to XHTML conversion as a part of their website redesigning process.

Now, after the launch of XHTML, a debate started amongst the developers as which markup language proves out to be better for converting PSD designs. Let us study some fundamental differences between these two conversion processes to decide which one is better.

Firstly, HTML is a SGML based hyper text markup language while XHTML is a predecessor of XML as mentioned earlier. The difference that lies here is that a SGML based markup language like HTML provides the liberty to omit certain tags but with an XML based markup language; none of the tags can be omitted. HTML also permits using attribute maximization where as XHTML strictly prohibits its usage. If one wishes to use shorthand notation for empty elements then its possible with XHTML but not with HTML. In terms of relative strictness, XHTML is considered much better in comparison of HTML. XHTML also wins the battle as far as nesting of semantic codes is concerned.

Image to HTML conversion also lacks interoception of the website with other file formats that restricts the site to a large extent. However, with the clutter free and clean coding of XHTML not only does the website enjoy better compatibility with other file formats but it also helps in taking the webpage creation to a higher level. All these features thus imply that PSD to XHTML conversion proves out to be better than HTML conversion.