July 2002
Intermediate to advanced
864 pages
22h 32m
English
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XLink
What Is XLink?
To take full use of XML as a markup format, a generic method for providing links was created: XLink, the XML Linking Language. XLink is a W3C Recommendation that was released on 27 June 2001; this means that the W3C has declared this a stable, proven specification for use on the Web and elsewhere. The XLink specification is published at
A link, in XLink terminology, is a relationship between one or more resources (or portions thereof) which are said to participate in the link. A resource is simply anything that can be addressed by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), such as a document on a Web site or an XML data repository. The use of XPointer allows for a portion of a resource to be identified ...