Although the failed effort may have been a work of "philosophical purity," it was overshadowed by HTML 5. Why are Web standards so darned hard to create? Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Ok you'll have to spell this out for me. Let's say I code in pure XML (not XHTML). But since it won't display properly in a browser, I need to write an XSLT file and use a special transform program ...