Xhtml 2.0

[Makaveli2007]

Is it ever coming (or well anytime in the near future) or is it something that will still take years to be developed and used in practice and perhaps never be finished?

[tedster]

Forget about XHTML 2.0 - also see my answer in your other thread [webmasterworld.com]. In fact, unless you really need XML functionality, forget XHTML 1.1 as well.

HTML 5 is under development [webmasterworld.com] right now, and likely to be more useful for most people than XHTML 2.0, if indeed it ever does become anything official.

[Makaveli2007]

So they've realized that xhtml poses too many problems and are thus working on an html 5.0 version?

If they're going that route, obviously I wont have any problems learning and using html 4.01 if html 5.0 won't arrive before 2010, anyway.

[ronin]

This is exciting.

There is already a Working Draft of HTML 5 up on the W3C site:

[w3.org ]

1.1.1. Relationship to HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.1, DOM2 HTML
This section is non-normative.

This specification represents a new version of HTML4 and XHTML1, along with a new version of the associated DOM2 HTML API. Migration from HTML4 or XHTML1 to the format and APIs described in this specification should in most cases be straightforward, as care has been taken to ensure that backwards-compatibility is retained.

This specification will eventually supplant Web Forms 2.0 as well. [WF2]

1.1.2. Relationship to XHTML2
This section is non-normative.

XHTML2 [XHTML2] defines a new HTML vocabulary with better features for hyperlinks, multimedia content, annotating document edits, rich metadata, declarative interactive forms, and describing the semantics of human literary works such as poems and scientific papers.

However, it lacks elements to express the semantics of many of the non-document types of content often seen on the Web. For instance, forum sites, auction sites, search engines, online shops, and the like, do not fit the document metaphor well, and are not covered by XHTML2.

This specification aims to extend HTML so that it is also suitable in these contexts.

XHTML2 and this specification use different namespaces and therefore can both be implemented in the same XML processor.

[JAB Creations]

Right, but HTML5 can't even figure out it's own name after it knocks on your door.

- John