On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, David Woolley wrote:

> I do agree that this is pandering to presentational markup and XHTML 2
> really ought not to follow that line, even though CSS and SVG are
> definitely following it at the moment.

I'm afraid you might be right. In that case, the version XHTML 2 could be 
skipped (left an unfinished draft, in the tradition of HTML), and XHTML 3
could follow the principles outlined in April 1, 2003:
http://w2c.shorturl.com 
Briefly, this would mean an integration of CSS into XHTML, saving much 
trouble and learning difficultes.

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Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/