.XHTML Extension & Syntax Highlighter

Question

i tried to use Syntax Highlighter in a XHTML/CSS Template. i noticed if i use the .xhtml extension the Syntax Highlighter fails. if i rename the extension to .html it works.

so the question is: - Syntax Highlighter does not work with XHTML? - whats the difference between .xhtml vs .htm/html? if i still have the same code? xml declaration etc (for xhtml)?

i tried 1.5.1 and 2 (http://alexgorbatchev.com/wiki/SyntaxHighlighter) when i rename extension to html it will work

Syntax Highlighter 2.0 code

$(function() { SyntaxHighlighter.all(); });

<pre class="brush:xhtml"><h1 class="bottom">This is a normal H1</h1> <h1 class="tag">This is a H1 with a class "tag"</h1></pre>

Answer 1

There's no difference in particular between the extensions in terms of syntax highlighting; most likely the issue is that the syntax highlighter in question simply isn't configured to recognized .xhtml as an XHTML document.

If you don't have the opportunity to futz about with the source of your particular installation; I'd recommend simply passing .html or .xml as the extension; it should yield the same result.

Answer 2

changing the extension to .html does the trick, i guess somehow Syntax highlighter does not recognize/work in .xhtml extension or something.