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You should be able to upgrade the Genesis Framework to the latest version with no issues. Genesis 2.0+ is HTML5, but it will still allow you to use the XHTML (your version of the theme). You wouldn’t have to worry about anything unless you were planning on converting your site to HTML5….if so, then you would definitely have to go though everything and convert the old code to the new code. This probably isn’t something most people want to do, but if you want to give it a try you can take a look here – https://appfinite.com/topic/legacy-1-3-for-genesis-2-0-html5-is-now-available/

I’ve updated sites using the older versions of Genesis themes with Genesis 2.0 and they still work fine. If you don’t have HTML5 activated in your functions file then it won’t use it, so you should be good to go.

Before you upgrade, make sure you have a couple backups of everything. Also, make sure your hosting company has a backup as well. Just to be on the safe side.