XLink

Draft

• The XML Linking Language, or XLink, is an XML markup language used for creating hyperlinks for XML documents. XLink is a W3C specification which describes methods for allowing elements to be inserted into XML documents in order to create and describe links between resources, whether internal or external to the original document. (Wikipedia, retrieved 16:25, 6 November 2006 (MET))

Current implementations

While there are currently (2006) several experimental XML Linking implementations, XLinks are not or badly supported in current Web browsers.

• Simple Xlinks work in Mozilla/Firefox for XML contents. E.g.

<root xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> 
 <link xlink:href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer"
       xlink:type="simple">CSS Validator</A>
</root>

• Simple Xlink support is mandatory for SVG 1.0 simplementations (and work with most)

Links

Standards

• XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.0 W3C Recommendation 27 June 2001

• XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.1 W3C Candidate Recommendation 28 March 2006

Tutorials

• XLink and XPointer Tutorial, a w3schools tutorial.

General

• W3C XML Pointer, XML Base and XML Linking (Overview page)

• Xlink summary from ibiblio.org

• Eve Mahler's short Xlink and XPointer overview.

Software

• ???

References

• Arciniegas, Fabio (2000). What is XLink xml.com article, HTML

• Arciniegas, Fabio (2000). XLink Reference, xml.com article, HTML

• Arciniegas, Fabio (2000). XLink: An Introductory Example, xml.com article, HTML

Clients

• XML Linking Implementations (A not necessarily complete page from W3C)