XML Linking Language(XLink)
Creating Powerful and Flexible Hypertext structures
Simon St.Laurent
Geek Cruises XML Excursion - January 2001
Copyright 2001 Simon St.Laurent simonstl@simonstl.com - http://www.simonstl.com
Table of Contents
Hypertext for the 1970s
The Problem with Hypertext
HTML's Magical Simplification
Exploding Webs of Hypertext
The Pain of Document Management
Moving Beyond HTML
Linking and Open Vocabularies
A New Approach for XML
Simple Links
Recreating A HREF=
Moving from Paths to Sets
Moving Links Out of the Way
Creating Extended Links
Demonstration - Image Maps
The Behavior Question
Programming for Links
Styles for Links
The Question of Arcs
Managing Links - Extended Link Groups
Legal and Political Implications of Multidirectional Links
Alternative Approaches - Weaknesses of XLink
Alternative Approaches - Non-XLink Solutions
Moving Toward Generic Hypertext Applications
Questions
Copyright 2000 Simon St.Laurent