Information AboutXlink |
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| markup languages | |
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| w3c standards | |
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XLink 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. It is a W3C standard. The development of XLink was complex, slow in arrival, and failed to capture people's imaginations. Until Spring of 2006 it was considered to be defunct, left untalked about and unsupported by popular software. In late March 2006, the W3C brought XLink 1.1 to candidate status —the first public activity related to XLink in years.[http://news.google.com/news?lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=XLink&sa=N&tab=wn THE XLINK SPECIFICATION A simple link is familiar from HTML. It links one element of a web document to another via a URI . Example:
Hypertext links in SVG are defined with respect to the xlink: namespace: xmlns:xlink='http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink' Extended links The XLink specification supported not only simple links but also ''extended links''. Extended links could have connected two or more resources via a single link, which need not be contained within any of them. This would have made it possible to associate metadata or other supplemental information with resources without editing them. XLink also supported richer information about link types and the roles of each resource that an XLink connects. SOFTWARE USING XLINK None Known EXTERNAL LINKS |