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Topic: Linking

Resources
Topic Maps
Topic Map standards, software, mailing lists, resource sites, etc.

XLink
XLink (XML Linking Language) resources, software, and specifications.

XLink Tutorials
Tutorials covering the W3C's XML Linking Language (XLink).

XPointer
Specifications and resources covering the W3C's XML Pointer Language (XPointer).

XTM (XML Topic Maps)
Specifications, software and other resources about XTM - the XML-based Topic Map syntax.

Articles
Linkin' Park By Edd Dumbill
One of the original trinity of XML specs, XML linking has largely failed. Can, and should, we fix it? [Oct. 27, 2004]

The Atom Link Model By Mark Pilgrim
In Mark Pilgrim's latest Dive Into XML column he explains the Atom linking model, which is based on the familiar HTML linking model but is more expressive and more flexible. [Jun. 16, 2004]

Prototyping One-to-many Links with XSLT By Bob DuCharme
In his latest Transforming XML adventure, Bob DuCharme explains how to use XSLT to experiment with one-to-many hypertext links. [Mar. 5, 2003]

The Return of XML Hypertext By Kendall Grant Clark
Kendall Clark reports on the creation of a new mailing list focused on the use of XML for hypertext. [Jan. 22, 2003]

Creative Comments: On the Uses and Abuses of Markup By Kendall Grant Clark
The way Creative Commons recommends linking its machine-readable licenses into HTML pages makes little sense, says Kendall Clark, and proposes alternatives. [Jan. 15, 2003]

"Displaying" XLinks? By John E. Simpson
John E. Simpson, in his latest XML Q&A column, discusses how to make XML applications XLink-aware. [Jan. 2, 2003]

TAG Rejects HLink By Kendall Grant Clark
Kendall Clark reports on the rejection by the W3C's Technical Architecture Group of the XHTML Working Group's HLink linking specification. [Oct. 2, 2002]

Introducing HLink By Kendall Grant Clark
Kendall Clark provides an introduction to HLink, the linking language invented by the XHTML 2.0 Working Group as an alternative to XLink. [Sep. 25, 2002]

Using XInclude By Elliotte Rusty Harold
Noted XML author Elliotte Rusty Harold gives an overview of XInclude, an emerging W3C specification for building large XML documents out of multiple well-formed XML documents. [Jul. 31, 2002]

Enforcing Association Cardinality By Will Provost
In the first of our "XML Schema Clinic" series, we look at the ways that the cardinality of associations between XML elements can be controlled using W3C XML Schema. [Jun. 26, 2002]

Cataloging XML Vocabularies By Eric van der Vlist
Eric van der Vlist presents a way to ease publicising and choosing between different XML vocabularies. [Jun. 26, 2002]

Google's Gaffe By Paul Prescod
Paul Prescod explains why moving its API to use SOAP was a backward step for the popular search engine, and argues for a return to a pure HTTP and XML interface. [Apr. 24, 2002]

XLink: Who Cares? By Bob DuCharme
XLink was part of the original plan for XML, along with XSL, but has taken a long time to reach completion and has inspired few implementations. Bob DuCharme asks why. [Mar. 13, 2002]

Making Links, Breaking Entities By John E. Simpson
This month's XML Q&A column answers questions about making links with XSLT and doing without entities in XML Schemas. [Feb. 27, 2002]

Identity Crisis By Leigh Dodds
Leigh Dodds describes the recent XML developer community's debate about the best way to fix XML's ID attribute problem. [Nov. 7, 2001]

XPointer and the Patent By Leigh Dodds
Does a Sun patent threaten the future of hypertext on the web, or are XML developers getting unnecessarily alarmed by the licensing terms on the XPointer spec? The XML-Deviant reports. [Jan. 17, 2001]

XML Linking Technologies By Eric van der Vlist
XML's flexibility provides many ways of approaching the problem of creating links between nodes. Using practical examples, this article surveys linking in XML from containment through to RDF and XLink. [Oct. 4, 2000]

What Is XLink By Fabio Arciniegas A.
XLink is an XML specification for describing links between resources in XML. Our introduction shows you how to get to grips with using XLinks in your own documents. [Sep. 18, 2000]

Creating an HTML/WML Portal By Didier Martin
With the explosion in alternative browsing devices, portals need to present more than one representation of their content. Didier Martin demonstrates how to build your own XML-driven portal. [May. 15, 2000]

On Display: XML Web Pages with Internet Explorer 5.x By Simon St. Laurent
Completing our survey of XML browsing support, we take a look at Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and attempt to create a cross-browser XML document that works in Mozilla, Opera, and MSIE. [May. 2, 2000]

On Display: XML Web Pages with Opera 4.0 By Simon St. Laurent
In the second of our series examining XML display support in browsers, Simon St.Laurent investigates how Opera 4 compares to Mozilla. [Apr. 19, 2000]

Integration by Parts: XSLT, XLink and SVG By Didier Martin
Didier Martin gives us a practical demonstration of the power of XSLT, XLink and SVG, bringing them together to generate interactive, illustrated, technical documentation. [Mar. 22, 2000]

Bleeding-Edge XML: XLink and Apache By Edd Dumbill
In the first of our reports from XTech 2000, we examine the XLink specification and learn about XML web publishing from the Apache XML Project. [Feb. 28, 2000]

Component-Based Page Layouts By Didier Martin
Combining XHTML, XSLT and XLink can be a powerful way to construct web page layouts. Adding a splash of SVG for good measure, Didier Martin challenges us to experiment. [Feb. 16, 2000]

Links That Are More Valuable Than the Information They Link? By Bob DuCharme
Traditional databases have had them for years, and soon people will make money selling Web links. [Jul. 25, 1998]

An Introduction to XML Linking An introduction to the features and benefits of the XML Linking Language specification, by its co-editor Eve Maler. This is a RealAudio presentation. [Jun. 10, 1998]

XML Linking By Tim Bray, Steve J. DeRose
This document specifies a simple set of constructs that may be inserted into XML documents to describe links between objects and to support addressing into the internal structures of XML documents. It is a goal to use the power of XML to create a structure that can describe the simple unidirectional hyperlinks of today's HTML as well as more sophisticated multi-ended, typed, self-describing links. [Oct. 2, 1997]

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