guitar.is.good@g... wrote:

> I have done a fair bit of personal web design in XHTML 1.0/1.1 strict

Quite useful for authoring content in, but not all that suitable for use on
the WWW (the handwaving of Appendix C for XHTML 1.0 is silly at best (and
depends on bugs in HTML 4 user agents), and doesn't apply to 1.1 at all)

> and am very curious about XHTML2.0.

> To my understanding it is still in draft, but is it actually in use?

I seem to recall one person experimenting with it and transforming it with
client side XSLT. It really is not something you should be using on the WWW
at the moment.

> Ultimately I want to design a simple XHTML2.0 webpage for a LAN running
> on the current apache2 webserver.  But I can not figure out how to code
> an XHTML2.0 page.

XHTML 2.0 is still subject to change. It isn't supported, AFAIK, by any user
agent except as generic XML.

> The actual content seems fairly standard, but the 
> doctypes etc I can not get to validate on the w3c validator.

From the latest draft:

     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. 

So any DTD you might find is out of date.

> It especially gives my gumpf about mime types, but I dont know haw to
> solve it (I read xhtml2.0 needs an special xml type mime type)

I believe that you use the regular XHTML content type, with a parameter
specifying a version. I don't think the syntax of that parameter has been
defined yet (other then being in the standard form for HTTP).

> Is it feasable to code a website in XHTML2.0

No.

> , ignoring compatability issues (I heard mozilla firefox is the only
> browser compatible

I'm pretty sure it isn't.

> Something I really like the look of in XHTML2.0 is the section + h
> elements and the ability to put link / href attributes in any element,
> makes much more sense!

It is nice syntax for authoring, client support is absent at present. Treat
some draft of XHTML 2.0 (or a subset of same) as a custom XML format. Write
your own schema. Transform it to HTML 4.01 before serving to to clients.

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