GML (Geography Markup Language) also relies on XLink for semantic association and represents a growing community, riding a gradual uptake of OGC WFS services.

With metadata standards rapidly maturing in this domain, the GML community is coming to a point where enterprise support for GML will require custom XLink models/processors.

Previous experiences with XLink have left me thinking that the effort/reward ratio is far too low.

I’m interested by the direction of this thread though.

Nick Ardlie

http://www.paleboundary.com/

-----Original Message-----
From: Campbell, Richard S. [mailto:RCampbell@F...]
Sent: Saturday, 23 September 2006 5:27 AM
To: xml-dev@l...
Subject: Xlink Isn't Dead

Having searched in vain for mentions of Xlink in anything other than XBRL, I can see why it looks dead.  Although most XBRL advocates avoid talking about it, XBRL cannot exist without XLink, and it's a growing financial markup language. Essentially XBRL compiles metadata into taxonomies(linkbases) executable through Xlink.

The major current drawback to XBRL dissemination is the lack of open source Xlink software, one thing the XBRL communities keep wishing for but won't fund.

Richard Campbell
Senior Enterprise Architect
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Leader, Federal XBRL Community of Practice
http://usgovxbrl.webexone.com/default.asp
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