XHTML Mobile Profile (XHTML MP) is a

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ual

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standard designed specifically for mobile phones and other resource-constrained devices. It is an

XHTML Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) is part of the family of XML markup languages. It mirrors or extends versions of the widely used HyperText Markup Language (HTML), the language in which Web pages are formulated. While HTML, prior ...

document type defined by the

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. XHTML-MP is derived from

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1.0 by adding XHTML Modules, with later versions of the standard adding more modules. However, for certain modules, XHTML-MP does not mandate a complete implementation so an XHTML-MP browser may not be fully conforming on all modules.
The XHTML MP 1.2 DTD is the current recommendation, finalized in March 2008. ''

1.1'' became a W3C Recommendation in July 2008, superseding XHTML-MP 1.2.

Document Type Declaration

To validate as XHTML-MP, a document must contain a proper Document Type Declaration, (DTD) or DOCTYPE, depending on the version of specification followed Note that a series of revisions have been issued to correct technical errors in the above DTDs, and the DTD format is more complex and less widely supported than that of standard HTML.

MIME types

The

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type for XHTML Mobile Profile is "application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml". Conforming

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s should also accept "application/xhtml+xml" and "text/html". Many desktop browsers will only validate XHTML-MP at the display time, if an XML MIME type is specified.

Document Type Declaration

MIME types

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