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XML LINKING LANGUAGE (XLINK)AbstractThis specification defines the XML Linking Language (XLink), which allows elements to be inserted into XML documents in order to create and describe links between resources. It uses XML syntax to create structures that can describe links similar to the simple unidirectional hyperlinks of today's HTML, as well as more sophisticated links. Status of this documentThis document has been reviewed by W3C Members and other interested parties and has been endorsed by the Director as a W3C Recommendation. It is a stable document and may be used as reference material or cited as a normative reference from another document. W3C's role in making the Recommendation is to draw attention to the specification and to promote its widespread deployment. This enhances the functionality and interoperability of the Web. For information about the XPointer language that Must, May, etc. be used with XLink, see [xptr]. This document has been produced by the W3C XML Linking Working Group as part of the XML Activity in the W3C Architecture Domain. For background on this work, please see the XML Activity Statement. Please report possible errors in this document to the public email list www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org (archive at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-linking-comments/). Any confirmed errors will be documented in an list of errata available at http://www.w3.org/2001/06/xlink-errata. The English version of this specification is the only normative version. Information about translations of this document is available at http://www.w3.org/2001/06/xlink-translations. See [xldp] for additional background on the design principles informing XLink, and [xlreq] for the normative XLink requirements that this document attempts to satisfy. XLink does not support all HTML linking constructs as they stand; see [xlink-naming] for a discussion of this situation. A list of current W3C Recommendations and other technical documents can be found at http://www.w3.org/TR/. |