The XHTML 2 Working Group charter, scheduled to expire at the end of 2009, will not be renewed. By discontinuing the XHTML 2 working group and increasing resources in the HTML5 Working Group, W3C ...

"XHTML 2 was a beautiful specification of philosophical purity that had absolutely no resemblance to the real world," said Bruce Lawson, HTML 5 evangelist for browser maker Opera. So what went wrong?

For instance, the W3C’s new XHTML v2 standard works to further establish the separation between content and presentation, whereas the WHATWG ’s HTML v5 approach investigated how HTML is used ...

XHTML 2 Dies a Lonely Death, Makes Room For HTML 5 The web’s governing body has taken XHTML 2.0 off life support.