# XHTML™ 2.0

## W3C Working Draft 26 July 2006

This version:
  http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xhtml2-20060726
Latest version:
  http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2
Previous version:
  http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xhtml2-20050527
Diff-marked version:
  xhtml2-diff.html
Editors:
  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, WebGeek, Inc.
  Steven Pemberton, CWI (HTML Working Group Chair)

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## Abstract

XHTML 2 is a general-purpose markup language designed for representing 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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# Quick Table of Contents

# List of Issues

1. [PR #7759] [XHTML2] Spirit of "1.1.3. XHTML 2 and Presentation"
2. [PR #7723] On introducing a fallback attribute
3. [PR #7777] [XHTML 2] Conforming documents and meta properties
4. [PR #7791] Fw: [XHTML 2] Section 3.1.1
5. [PR #7804] Comments on XHTML 2.0 document conformance requirements
6. [PR #7808] Change XHTML 2.0 namespace to http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml
7. [PR #7818] Namespace versioning problem in XHTML 2
8. [PR #7819] Referance XML 1.1 and example with XML 1.1 declaration
9. [PR #7336] Identifying XHTML version in ansence of DTDs
10. [PR #7799] Fw: [XHTML 2] Section 5.5 quality values.
11. [PR #7800] Fw: [XHTML 2] Section 5.5 intersection of mime-types
12. [PR #7661] [XHTML2] Constraining attribute relationship
13. Need a normative definition for the version attribute
14. [PR #7820] [XHTML2] How are UAs to interpret <h> and <hx> elements?
15. [PR #7830] [XHTML2] How are UAs to interpret <h> and <hx> elements?
16. [PR #7874] block@kind vs elt@structure
17. [PR #7875] redundant content model
18. [PR #7877] headings -- numbered vs bare
19. [PR #7876] PCData not in Text
20. [PR #7882] XHTML 2.0: Text Module/<l> vs. <br /> element
21. [PR #7885] RE: [ off list ] XHTML 2.0 - dfn : Content model and usability
22. [PR #7663] [XHTML2] 11.3. The ol , and ul elements
23. [PR #7867] Re: WD-xhtml2-20040722: Some navigation list requirements (IMHO)
24. [PR #7872] attributes with no values
25. [PR #7792] Fw: [XHTML 2] 13.1 Hypertext Attributes Module - nextfocus
26. [PR #7883] Internationalization: translate attribute
27. [PR #7783] [XHTML 2] 15 Bi-directional text collection and embedded attributes?
28. [PR #7724] Re: Formal Response to My issue on styling embedding attributes.
29. [PR #7730] 17 Embedding Attributes User aborted downloads.
30. [PR #7731] 17 Embedding Attributes - Invalid XHTML 2 documents
31. [PR #7732] [XHTML 2] 17.1 Encoding attribute
32. [PR #7733] [XHTML 2] Embedding attributes and nextFocus
33. [PR #7734] 17 Embedding Attributes Success/Failure status codes.
34. [PR #7735] [XHTML 2] 17 Embedding Attributes - srcType
35. [PR #7736] [XHTML 2] Embedding XHTML Resources Linking.
36. [PR #7737] [XHTML 2] Embedded Resources containing links
37. [PR #7738] [XHTML 2] Embedding Attributes Examples
38. [PR #7739] [XHTML 2] 17 Clipping of embedded documents to viewport.
39. [PR #7774] [XHTML 2] 17 Embedding Attributes
40. [PR #7892] xhtml2 attributes type, srctype and hreftype
41. [PR #7869] rebuild link element: chapter, section / subsection
42. [PR #7870] RE: [BULK] - Re: [XHTML2] Spirit of "1.1.3. XHTML 2 and Presentation"
43. [PR #7871] Re: [BULK] - Re: [XHTML2] Spirit of "1.1.3. XHTML 2 and Presentation"
44. [PR #7828] Why no nested colgroup or rowgroup?
45. [PR #7878] What is the scope of a header?
46. [PR #7879] td/th scope attribute - rowgroup == (tbody, thead, tfoot)
47. [PR #7881] nesting colgroup and rowgroups
48. [PR #7826] [XHTML2] exclude switch and case as presentational
49. [PR #7838] autocomplete attribute
50. [PR #670] Entity management: do we still need it?
51. [PR #671] Character entities: do we still need them?

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