XHTML 2.0 Vs HTML 5

Question

Duplicate:

• Why are (X)HTML 5 and XHTML 2 separate standards?
• HTML 5 versus XHTML 1.0 Transitional?
• HTML vs XHTML does it still matter?

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There appears to be a unified opinion that the developments in HTML 5 and support by browser vendors of HTML 5, make the adoption of XHTML 1.0 with hopes of the day of XHTML 2.0 a bad choice.

For this reason I have decided for my most recent project to use a strict HTML 4.01 doctype, which has required me to look back at HTML conventions such as not using greater than characters at the end of self closing tags

The question is am I doing the right thing?

Answer 1

I'd stick with XHTML, HTML 5 supports most XHTML syntax (<br />, etc.)

Answer 2

XHTML 2 is going to die a quiet death, unused and unmourned.