The document provides an introduction to XHTML and outlines the course objectives which include understanding important XHTML components, creating web pages using XHTML, adding images, and using hyperlinks and lists. It then covers specific XHTML tags and elements like the <html>, <head>, <body>, and <title> tags as well as how to add comments, headers, links, images, lists, and special characters. The instructor demonstrates a basic XHTML document structure and provides examples of how to use various tags.