Xhtml 2.0

**Ian R. Gordon** · Dec 23, 2006 11:40

"Although XHTML 2.0 isn't ready for general use yet, understanding how the changes will affect your writing and code will be key to a smooth transition. With full XForms integration, separation of content and function, and other features, XHTML 2.0 promises to revolutionize the Web when XHTML 2.0 arrives."

http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/HTML/...2.0-Explained/

With XHTML going in a new direction and severing backwards compatibility with HTML, we seeing a new standard emerge. This isn't something completely new, rather it is a stricter enforcement of the previous standards along with some new additions. Hopefully, in this instance we do away with "transitional" and "strict" and just have one "strict" and complaint.

I was wondering what anyone thought, about the matter and just for the sake of showing how a page would look, I have included some XHTML 2.0 markup.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 2.0//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml2.dtd">
  <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2002/06/xhtml2/">
    <head>
      <title>Title of Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    </head>
    <body>
      <section>
        <p>This is just an example</p>
      </section>
      <section>
        <ul>
          <li>Item One</li>
          <li>Item Two</li>
        </ul>
      </section>
    </body>
  </html>

**drhowarddrfine** · Dec 23, 2006 11:55

It's rather useless since it isn't implemented yet and you are serving it as html anyway so why bother?

**zcorpan** · Dec 23, 2006 17:20

How is that any better than this HTML4?:

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
<title>Title of Document</title>
<p>This is just an example.
<ul>
 <li>Item One
 <li>Item Two
</ul>

...or, if you are an XML freak, this XHTML1?:

Code:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml>
 <head>
  <title>Title of Document</title>
 </head>
 <body>
  <p>This is just an example.</p>
  <ul>
   <li>Item One</li>
   <li>Item Two</li>
  </ul>
 </body>
</html>

**logic_earth** · Dec 23, 2006 21:19

Even if XHTML 2.0...whatever comes out there would be no point in switching. Nor will there be for years and years to come.

*This one is using HTML4 and it works just fine*

**Ian R. Gordon** · Dec 23, 2006 21:25

I was just providing an example, wanted to get some thoughts on a matter.

**Kravvitz** · Dec 23, 2006 21:29

*snorts* That article on XHTML 2.0 is over two years old, XHTML 2.0 still has working draft status, and I haven't heard that any of the main stream browsers have started implementing it yet.

I'm much more interested in what the new HTML working group at the W3C will do.

I still prefer HTML 4.01 Strict, myself.

**AutisticCuckoo** · Dec 24, 2006 00:59

XHTML 2.0 will not be OK to serve as text/html, since it will not be compatible with HTML. Even XHTML 1.1 is incompatible with HTML and should be served as XML.

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