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July 02, 2009
XHTML 2 language dumped in favor of HTML 5
W3C looks to focus efforts on HTML upgrade geared to Web development
By Paul Krill | InfoWorld
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Looking to focus on the budding -- and game-changing -- HTML 5 specification, the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) said Thursday it plans to increase available resources for the effort by discontinuing further development of XHTML 2.

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