Getting Started with XHTML

Creating basic mobile-specific Web sites using XHTML is as simple as coding a basic HTML site. Since both XHTML Basic and XHTML-MP are similar to XHTML, it only requires a few changes to format content for the mobile context.

In the next section, we cover the XHTML development recommendations for and best practices for mobile, but we start with the basics of creating XHTML pages.
If you are familiar with XHTML and the basic principles of Web standards, then you should know most of this already.

Let’s walk through examples of a mobile-specific page beginning with a look at the character encoding and doctype that start off our page