Scripting XML Elements

Internet Explorer provides limited support for scripting XML elements. For example, I can add an onclick event attribute to an XML element named <xlink> (we'll take a look at XLinks later in this book) in an XHTML document (we'll also take a look at XHTML later in this book):

Listing . ch07_12.html
 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet TYPE="text/css" href="ch07_13.css"?>

<html>
    <head>
    </head>

    <body>
    Want to check out <xlink xml:link = "simple" inline="false"
					href = "http://www.w3c.org"
					onclick="location.href='http://www.w3c.org'">W3C</xlink>?
    </body>
</html>

I can specify in a stylesheet, ch07_13.css, that <xlink> elements should be displayed in blue and underlined as a hyperlink might appear. I can ...

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