XML News from Sunday, June 5, 2005

The W3C XHTML working group has published the seventh public working draft of XHTML 2.0. XHTML 2.0 is the next, backwards incompatible version of HTML that incorporates XFrames, XForms, and lots of other crunchy XML goodness. However, XLink and xml:id are not yet included, XLink may never be. (The HTML Working Group are extreme XLink skeptics.) "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." (It's interesting that even the W3C working groups are starting to prefer RELAX NG.) It's not immediately clear what's new since the sixth draft.