According to a slashdot post, XHTML2 is cancelled.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/03/1447237/XHTML-2-Cancelled

We shall stick with HTML5 now. Although I still think HTML5 is the wrong direction.

Since the web is waiting for the XHTML2 standard, we can notice that the trend of web page markup is heading to the pure XML direction. Though XHTML2 might need a long time to be published, we should be prepared. What shall we do now? Switching to XHTML1.1 now would be the best practice since:

1. It’s pure XML, which is similar to XHTML2.
2. It is supported by current common browsers.

Using XHTML1.1 will let you be familiar with pure XML, and makes it much easier to change to XHTML2 in the future.

I decided to switch to XHTML1.1 (from XHTML1.0 traditional) today. While cleaning up my web pages, I found some tips which might be helpful for web you developers:

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