XHTML is such a load of garbage. Transitional is bad, sure, but strict HTML 4.01 is the very best.
Most of it is a lie, and when it's not a lie everything breaks (many JS behaviors change quite a bit in XHTML-as-XML).
Also, XML blows goats.
> Personally I would say that it's so good that they should probably do away with any non-xml serializations of the DOM...
Wow…