Schmelzer is pleased with the efforts of the W3C but says the biggest issue relating to XHTML is adoption. “We have a bigger challenge with XHTML. Because people that are currently producing Web sites are not programmers, to get them to write XHTML compliant code might be difficult,” he says. “First we have to get the tools vendor to make XHTML compliant code. Then we have to get the old version of the technology out of people’s hands who are using FrontPage, which can create non-valid XHTML code. Those all have to be translated. The W3C is doing the right thing. With everything XML it is going to just take time.”

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