Re: [xml-dev] XHTML 2 Working Group won't be renewed?

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Jonathan Robie <>
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Dan Brickley <>
Date
2009-07-07T14:40:15Z
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Re: [xml-dev] XHTML 2 Working Group won't be renewed?
Dan Brickley wrote:
> You write "Typically, Working Groups are rechartered if there is 
> active interest in their work and they are close to their goal, as the 
> XHTML Working Group is. Another year of effort would probably be 
> sufficient to finish the XHTML specifications."
>
> Although not as high-profile as a REC-track group, there is nothing to 
> stop a group of like-minded W3C members single-handedly chartering an 
> Incubator Group (XG, see http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/ ) to try to 
> progress the XHTML efforts. Perhaps - in part - by defining a recovery 
> model for ill-formed XML markup?

But it looks like XHTML5 is slated to replace it.

Can we count on XHTML5 to meet all the requirements of XHTML?

Jonathan