By Stephen Hui
Straight.com, Vancouver’s Online Source

Upon reading that the World Wide Web Consortium has decided to stop work on XHTML 2, I wondered what that means for RDFa.

On July 2, the standards body announced that it will let its XHTML 2 Working Group’s charter expire at the end of this year. The move will allow the W3C to increase the resources it devotes to the development of HTML 5.

XHTML 2, which was in its eighth public working draft, attracted criticism for, among other things, not being backward compatible with previous versions of Hypertext Markup Language. HTML 5, however, is backward compatible.

RDFa, a key Semantic Web technology, came out of the work of the XHTML 2 Working Group.

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