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Mobile/embedded-targeting SGML/XML-ish markup dialects:
HDML, late 90s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handheld_Device_Markup_Language
WML, y2kish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Markup_Language
XHTML Mobile Profile, 00's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHTML_Mobile_Profile
C-HTML, present day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-mode
XHTML Basic, present day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHTML_Basic
Lightweight Markup Languages, present day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language

Dishonorable mention, invented by idiots: AMPHTML (accelerated mobile project)

Regarding lightweight markup, see: Gemini
Earlier: NNTP, Gopher...

1.1.2. Relationship to XHTML2

This section is non-normative.

XHTML2 [XHTML2] defines a new HTML vocabulary with better features for hyperlinks, multimedia content, annotating document edits, rich metadata, declarative interactive forms, and describing the semantics of human literary works such as poems and scientific papers.

However, it lacks elements to express the semantics of many of the non-document types of content often seen on the Web. For instance, forum sites, auction sites, search engines, online shops, and the like, do not fit the document metaphor well, and are not covered by XHTML2.

This specification aims to extend HTML so that it is also suitable in these contexts.

XHTML2 and this specification use different namespaces and therefore can both be implemented in the same XML processor.

https://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080122/#relationship0
I think Hixie wrote that bit, not sure. Having HTML5 AND XHTML2 would have been wonderful fun