It’s not failed: it’s the only language used in the ePub standard. Though this m...

dragonwriter · 2025-07-20T20:32:07 1753043527

> It’s not failed: it’s the only language used in the ePub standard.

"XHTML" can refer to both a failed series of standards intended to replace HTML (XHTML 1.0, XHMTL 1.1, and XHMTL 2.0) and the XML syntax of HTML that is part of the HTML living standard, which itself resulted from the failure of the XHMTL series of standards. EPUB 3's "XHTML" is the latter, not the former.

jefftk · 2025-07-20T19:53:50 1753041230

Its design goal was to supplant HTML as the language of the web, and regularize communication between browsers and servers. At this it has failed.