# XHTML™ 2.0

## W3C Editor's Draft 07 April 2009

This version:
  http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2009/ED-xhtml2-20090407
Latest public version:
  http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2
Previous Editor's Draft:
  http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2009/ED-xhtml2-20090205
Diff from previous Editor's Draft:
  xhtml2-ed-diff.html
Previous version:
  http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xhtml2-20060726
Diff-marked version:
  xhtml2-wd-diff.html
Editors:
  Mark Birbeck, x-port.net
  Markus Gylling, DAISY Consortium
  Shane McCarron, Applied Testing and Technology
  Steven Pemberton, CWI (XHTML 2 Working Group Co-Chair)
Editors (while chartered as the HTML Working Group):
  Jonny Axelsson, Opera Software
  Mark Birbeck, x-port.net
  Micah Dubinko, Invited Expert
  Beth Epperson, Websense
  Masayasu Ishikawa, W3C
  Shane McCarron, Applied Testing and Technology
  Ann Navarro, Invited Expert
  Steven Pemberton, CWI

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## Abstract

XHTML 2 is a general-purpose markup language designed to represent documents for a wide range of purposes across the World Wide Web. To this end it does not attempt to be all things to all people, supplying every possible markup idiom, but to supply a generally useful set of elements.

## Status of This Document

This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be found in the W3C technical reports index at http://www.w3.org/TR/.

This document is the eighth public Working Draft of this specification. It should in no way be considered stable, and should not be normatively referenced for any purposes whatsoever. This version includes an early implementation of XHTML 2.0 in RELAX NG [RELAXNG], but does not include the implementations in DTD or XML Schema form. Those will be included in subsequent versions, once the content of this language stabilizes.

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This document has been produced by the W3C XHTML 2 Working Group as part of the HTML Activity. The goals of the XHTML 2 Working Group are discussed in the XHTML 2 Working Group charter.

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# Quick Table of Contents

# List of Issues

1. [PR #7759] [XHTML2] Spirit of "1.1.3. XHTML 2 and Presentation"
2. [PR #7336] Identifying XHTML version in ansence of DTDs
3. [PR #7799] Fw: [XHTML 2] Section 5.5 quality values.
4. [PR #7800] Fw: [XHTML 2] Section 5.5 intersection of mime-types
5. [PR #7661] [XHTML2] Constraining attribute relationship
6. [PR #7820] [XHTML2] How are UAs to interpret <h> and <hx> elements?
7. [PR #7830] [XHTML2] How are UAs to interpret <h> and <hx> elements?
8. [PR #7874] block@kind vs elt@structure
9. [PR #7875] redundant content model
10. [PR #7877] headings -- numbered vs bare
11. [PR #7878] What is the scope of a header?
12. l element content model
13. [PR #7876] PCData not in Text
14. [PR #7882] XHTML 2.0: Text Module/<l> vs. <br /> element
15. [PR #7885] RE: [ off list ] XHTML 2.0 - dfn : Content model and usability
16. [PR #7899] Re: [XHTML 2.0] emphesis
17. [PR #7663] [XHTML2] 11.3. The ol , and ul elements
18. [PR #7867] Re: WD-xhtml2-20040722: Some navigation list requirements (IMHO)
19. [PR #7792] Fw: [XHTML 2] 13.1 Hypertext Attributes Module - nextfocus
20. [PR #7883] Internationalization: translate attribute
21. [PR #7783] [XHTML 2] 15 Bi-directional text collection and embedded attributes?
22. [PR #7724] Re: Formal Response to My issue on styling embedding attributes.
23. [PR #7730] 17 Embedding Attributes User aborted downloads.
24. [PR #7731] 17 Embedding Attributes - Invalid XHTML 2 documents
25. [PR #7732] [XHTML 2] 17.1 Encoding attribute
26. [PR #7733] [XHTML 2] Embedding attributes and nextFocus
27. [PR #7734] 17 Embedding Attributes Success/Failure status codes.
28. [PR #7735] [XHTML 2] 17 Embedding Attributes - srcType
29. [PR #7736] [XHTML 2] Embedding XHTML Resources Linking.
30. [PR #7737] [XHTML 2] Embedded Resources containing links
31. [PR #7738] [XHTML 2] Embedding Attributes Examples
32. [PR #7739] [XHTML 2] 17 Clipping of embedded documents to viewport.
33. [PR #7774] [XHTML 2] 17 Embedding Attributes
34. [PR #7892] xhtml2 attributes type, srctype and hreftype
35. [PR #7869] rebuild link element: chapter, section / subsection
36. [PR #7870] RE: [BULK] - Re: [XHTML2] Spirit of "1.1.3. XHTML 2 and Presentation"
37. [PR #7871] Re: [BULK] - Re: [XHTML2] Spirit of "1.1.3. XHTML 2 and Presentation"
38. [PR #7828] Why no nested colgroup or rowgroup?
39. [PR #7879] td/th scope attribute - rowgroup == (tbody, thead, tfoot)
40. [PR #7881] nesting colgroup and rowgroups
41. [PR #7826] [XHTML2] exclude switch and case as presentational
42. [PR #8031] Issue with using XML Events 2 with repeated content
43. [PR #8050] [XML Events 2] Problem with image
44. [PR #8056] LC Comment: Common event info from event()
45. [PR #670] Entity management: do we still need it?
46. [PR #671] Character entities: do we still need them?
47. [PR #7893] Last Call Comment: DTD and SCHEMA directories included in TR tree for XHTML M12N 1.1

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