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08-28-2008, 12:10 AM
HTML, JS, PHP, CSS, XML, XSL, etc. are all essentially just word documents, so you can actually switch between these extensions as much as you like. They may not function properly when changed to another extension, but they can still be changed to have a different extension and still be opened with any text editor as sizzlefire pointed out.
You can actually take a HTML document and just change the extension to PHP or XML/XSL and it'll still be read like an HTML file, since the PHP extension just tells the server to process any PHP coded that might be included in the document. As for XML/XSL, XHTML is essentially HTML with XML rules, so provided your HTML document is well-formed, it can be used as XML/XSL.
If you feel up to coding pages yourself (or if you can find the packages you plan to use), I would highly suggest that you download a server application such as XAMPP or another similar program. Such programs allow you to host your web pages from your own computer (you'll be able to view them from the localhost address (or IP 127.0.0.1)) so you can see how the pages look before you upload them to your website. This can help to prevent viewers from seeing any bugs you might run into while updating your site.
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