In XHTML there is a handful of types including Strict and Transitional, is there much difference between them and which is the better of the two.

I always thought that Transitional was the stricter but have now heard otherwise.

take a look at:
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/default.asp

hope it helps

great, thanks!

You can always look here too - http://liorean.web-graphics.com/xhtml/comparison.loose-strict.html for a list of differences between transitional and strict