Is XHTML a dead end?

In a message dated 26/09/2002 20:09:58 GMT Daylight Time, mc@xegesis.org 
writes:


> In my humble and personal opinion, given that the world has not rushed to 
> implement
> XLink nor is it clamoring for XHTML 2, there's time to step back, 
> reconsider
> all assumptions, and maybe get both right next time.  

Mike,

Perhaps you didn't quite mean *all* assumptions. :)

A perfectly genuine question in my mind is whether XHTML is and will continue 
to be a dead end.

I could make this a very lengthy post but I think the bald question, "Is 
XHTML worth persevering worth?" encapsulates the questioning of a perhaps 
dearly held assumption. It's an assumption worth examining in detail in my 
view.

Andrew Watt