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<h1><a id="a_changes">A.</a> Changes from XHTML 1.0 Strict</h1>
<p>This appendix is <em>informative</em>.</p>
<p>This Appendix describes the differences between XHTML 1.1 and XHTML 1.0 Strict. XHTML 1.1 represents a departure from both HTML 4 and XHTML 1.0. Most significant is the removal of features that
were deprecated. In general, the strategy is to define a markup language that is rich in structural functionality, but that relies upon style sheets for presentation.</p>
<p>The differences can be summarized as follows:</p>
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<li>On every element, the <tt>lang</tt> attribute has been removed in favor of the <tt>xml:lang</tt> attribute (as defined in [<a href="references.html#ref_xhtml_modularization">XHTMLMOD</a>]).</li>
<li>On the <tt>a</tt> and <tt>map</tt> elements, the <tt>name</tt> attribute has been removed in favor of the <tt>id</tt> attribute (as defined in [<a href=