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diff --git a/usr.bin/mandoc/mandoc.1 b/usr.bin/mandoc/mandoc.1
index 44ea8e50e8c..7dbf90bbb92 100644
--- a/usr.bin/mandoc/mandoc.1
+++ b/usr.bin/mandoc/mandoc.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.20 2009/12/24 02:08:14 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.21 2010/02/18 02:11:26 schwarze Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2009 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@kth.se>
.\"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: December 24 2009 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: February 18 2010 $
.Dt MANDOC 1
.Os
.
@@ -167,6 +167,10 @@ styles. This is the default. See
Produce strict HTML-4.01 output, with a sane default style. See
.Sx HTML Output .
.
+.It Fl T Ns Ar xhtml
+Produce strict XHTML-1.0 output, with a sane default style. See
+.Sx XHTML Output .
+.
.It Fl T Ns Ar tree
Produce an indented parse tree.
.
@@ -231,7 +235,7 @@ relative URI.
.It Fl O Ns Ar includes=fmt
The string
.Ar fmt ,
-for example,
+for example,
.Ar ../src/%I.html ,
is used as a template for linked header files (usually via the
.Sq \&In
@@ -242,7 +246,7 @@ hyperlink.
.It Fl O Ns Ar man=fmt
The string
.Ar fmt ,
-for example,
+for example,
.Ar ../html%S/%N.%S.html ,
is used as a template for linked manuals (usually via the
.Sq \&Xr
@@ -260,7 +264,7 @@ present a hyperlink.
This section documents output details of
.Nm .
In general, output conforms to the traditional manual style of a header,
-a body composed of sections and sub-sections, and a footer.
+a body composed of sections and sub-sections, and a footer.
.Pp
The text style of output characters (non-macro characters, punctuation,
and white-space) is dictated by context.
@@ -307,7 +311,7 @@ however, these rules are also applied to macro arguments when appropriate.
.
.
.Ss ASCII Output
-Output produced by
+Output produced by
.Fl T Ns Ar ascii ,
which is the default, is rendered in standard 7-bit ASCII documented in
.Xr ascii 7 .
@@ -333,7 +337,7 @@ exceed this limit.
.Ss HTML Output
Output produced by
.Fl T Ns Ar html
-comforms to HTML-4.01 strict.
+conforms to HTML-4.01 strict.
.Pp
Font styles and page structure are applied using CSS2. By default, no
font style is applied to any text, although CSS2 is hard-coded to format
@@ -348,6 +352,17 @@ cause rendered documents to appear as they do in
Special characters are rendered in decimal-encoded UTF-8.
.
.
+.Ss XHTML Output
+Output produced by
+.Fl T Ns Ar xhtml
+conforms to XHTML-1.0 strict.
+.Pp
+See
+.Sx HTML Output
+for details; beyond generating XHTML tags instead of HTML tags, these
+output modes are identical.
+.
+.
.Sh EXAMPLES
To page manuals to the terminal:
.
@@ -379,15 +394,15 @@ Each input and output format is separately noted.
.Ss ASCII Compatibility
.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
-The
+The
.Sq \e~
-special character doesn't produce expected behaviour in
+special character doesn't produce expected behaviour in
.Fl T Ns Ar ascii .
.
.It
-The
+The
.Sq \&Bd \-literal
-and
+and
.Sq \&Bd \-unfilled
macros of
.Xr mdoc 7
@@ -396,7 +411,7 @@ in
are synonyms, as are \-filled and \-ragged.
.
.It
-In
+In
.Xr groff 1 ,
the
.Sq \&Pa
@@ -437,7 +452,7 @@ Sentences are unilaterally monospaced.
.El
.
.
-.Ss HTML Compatibility
+.Ss HTML/XHTML Compatibility
.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
The
@@ -446,7 +461,7 @@ escape will revert the font to the previous
.Sq \ef
escape, not to the last rendered decoration, which is now dictated by
CSS instead of hard-coded. It also will not span past the current
-scope, for the same reason. Note that in
+scope, for the same reason. Note that in
.Sx ASCII Output
mode, this will work fine.
.It
@@ -483,13 +498,17 @@ utility was written by
.Sh CAVEATS
The
.Fl T Ns Ar html
+and
+.Fl T Ns Ar xhtml
CSS2 styling used for
.Fl m Ns Ar doc
input lists does not render properly in brain-dead browsers, such as
Internet Explorer 6 and earlier.
.Pp
In
-.Fl T Ns Ar html ,
+.Fl T Ns Ar html
+and
+.Fl T Ns Ar xhtml ,
the maximum size of an element attribute is determined by
.Dv BUFSIZ ,
which is usually 1024 bytes. Be aware of this when setting long link
@@ -498,7 +517,9 @@ formats, e.g.,
.Pp
The
.Fl T Ns Ar html
-output mode doesn't render the
+and
+.Fl T Ns Ar xhtml
+output modes don't render the
.Sq \es
font size escape documented in
.Xr mdoc 7