Chapter 15. XLinks and XPointers
This chapter is all about creating connections between documents and parts of documents—the XLink and XPointer specifications. In HTML, you have hyperlinks, but XML has gone far beyond that, using the XLink, XPointer, XPath, and XBase specifications.
Unfortunately, this is another area of XML where the W3C is far ahead of the rest of the world. There are no concrete implementations of any of these specifications yet. Microsoft, which has been burned many times by implementing XML standards that have then changed, is just beginning to add support for XLinks and XPointers to Internet Explorer. Certainly, we'll see all these specifications implemented in future software, but for now, most of the material in this ...
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