Talk:XLink

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I have removed "XLink use XPath" because it is false. I have verified in "Xml in a nutshell" and in the XLink specification. XPointer use Xpath, but XLink doesn't. Pfv2 21:08, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

This isn't true. XLink uses Xpointers which, as you said, is based off of XPath. XPath is a means of describing a the location of one or many nodes in an XML tree. XPointers are an extended form of XPath. Rather than simply referencing the location a node, or collection of nodes, XPointers can reference points in the element tree or text nodes. It can also reference a range of text. The concept of referencing a point is similar to the simple HTML <a href="test.html#point">, but XPointer is far more flexible. XLink uses these references provided by XPointer and defines a system for linking documents based on these references. It could display information in one XML document pulled in from another XML document using a particular XPointer. At this point, XPointer operates quite independently of XLink, which has failed to catch on. -- Vernon.

Fixed some presentation (grammar and markup) issues. I reworked the second sentence which was rather awkward; if I changed the meaning in the process, feel free to change it back. I also marked up code as code using the proper HTML markup. However, I’m not sure if “from="A", to="A"” should be considered code or what; it looks like code, so I marked it as code. JustSomeGuy 00:04, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Oh yes, the article is also a bit dated since Firefox 2(.0.0.1) and Netscape 8.1(.2) are the current versions of those browsers. Also not sure what the bold text means is for this sentence: “All other links open the target in the current window, when requested, irrespective of the presence of xlink:actuate or xlink:show attributes.” If it means “when the user has activated the link”, that’s obvious and should be removed.

[edit] SVG

Doesn't SVG use XLink?

I should think so. Since SVG is an XML based format it should be possible to use XLink with SVG (but the same is true for all XML formats so it might be too redundant to add to the article). ThomasJensenDaugaard 15:40, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Companies

XLink Technology is also a publisher of networking and fault tolerance software, but I don't know how to create a disambiguation page.