The XLink Specification
The popularity of the World Wide Web is directly related to the mass appeal of hypertext links. In fact, a new phrase was coined to describe the process of moving between hyperlinked documents—Web surfing. Despite their popularity, current Web links are considered primitive in comparison to other linking specifications like those in the Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring language (HyTime) and the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) guidelines. The XLink specification takes into account the advances of these predecessors to provide the capability to link XML documents.
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At the time of this writing, the XLink specification is still a candidate recommendation. The latest specification can be found at http://www.w3c.org/TR
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