Membership and Participation
This Working Group is expected to have active participation of a diverse community, including browser vendors, authoring tools developers, content developers, etc. A full list of participants is available. A number of Working Group members answered a survey about background experience and expertise.
By charter, we operate primarily by email (see public-html archive), supplemented by web-based surveys, occasional teleconferences, and up to two in-person meetings per year. Some participants supplement these with IRC
Workshop Goals
Is HTML 4.0 the last HTML? Does XML mean the end of HTML? Has W3C given up on HTML?
Rest assured, W3C's answer to all three questions is "no". HTML, together with style sheets and scripting, promises to be a vital part of the Web for years to come as the ubiquitous format for global hypertext. Millions of people have learned HTML and have documented vast amounts of information with it, ensuring its future role.
What is that role? How will HTML co-exist with XML, RDF, SMIL, and other languages? W3C has ideas but we want your
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