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On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Tim Bray wrote: [...] > That won't happen unless somebody > buckles down and writes some code to show what it can > do. I'm curious to know why this hasn't happened yet, when other aspects of XML+friends have been so fruitfully exploited, even before publication of drafts. Maybe everyone just has their hands full. It's particularly interesting given that there have been products containing a large amount of the functionality of XLink around for a decade or more (DynaText and Panorama, to name the two obvious candidates), so it cannot be for want of example. Specific things I get asked for are 1. Multi-headed links, so that a click on the text (or icon, or whatever instantiation is chosen) causes a menu of targets to drop down and allow the user to select one. Model: windowing file managers where a right-click on a file icon produces a menu of possible actions. 2. Out-of-band links, where a user-maintained object stores paired or multiply-associated URIs linking sets of two or more end-points in the target files *without the user needing write-access to any of the files pointed to*. When any of the files referenced is accessed, the browser adds the personalised link icon to the passages pointed to by the relevant URIs. 3. Link management software which will activate when a user edits or creates a link, and places a reciprocal marker in the target document (assuming it is write-accessible). ///Peter
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