# XHTML™ 2.0

## W3C Working Group Note 13 January 2010

This version:
  http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/NOTE-xhtml2-20100113
Latest public version:
  http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2
Previous Editor's Draft:
  http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2010/ED-xhtml2-20091022
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 a Working Group Note. The XHTML2 Working Group's charter expired before it could finish work on this specification. This document represents the state of the working group's thinking. It is possible that this work will be picked up by some other group or organization in the future. This Note should in no way be considered stable, and should not be normatively referenced for any purposes whatsoever. This version includes an early implementations of XHTML 2.0 in RELAX NG [RELAXNG] and XML Schema [XMLSCHEMA] forms.

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 #7878] What is the scope of a header?
10. l element content model
11. [PR #7663] [XHTML2] 11.3. The ol , and ul elements
12. [PR #7783] [XHTML 2] 15 Bi-directional text collection and embedded attributes?
13. [PR #7724] Re: Formal Response to My issue on styling embedding attributes.
14. [PR #7869] rebuild link element: chapter, section / subsection
15. [PR #7870] RE: [BULK] - Re: [XHTML2] Spirit of "1.1.3. XHTML 2 and Presentation"
16. [PR #7871] Re: [BULK] - Re: [XHTML2] Spirit of "1.1.3. XHTML 2 and Presentation"
17. [PR #7828] Why no nested colgroup or rowgroup?
18. [PR #7881] nesting colgroup and rowgroups
19. [PR #8050] [XML Events 2] Problem with image
20. [PR #8056] LC Comment: Common event info from event()
21. [PR #670] Entity management: do we still need it?
22. [PR #671] Character entities: do we still need them?

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