The Semantic Web was never going to win. It does not make sense on a fundamental level. XHTML's failure had nothing to do with it, and is basically unrelated.

The Semantic Web was never going to win. It does not make sense on a fundamental level. XHTML's failure had nothing to do with it, and is basically unrelated. Even if xhtml won i fail to see how that would have helped semantic web in any way shape or form.