Overview: Linking with XLinks and XPointers
XLinks specify how one document links to another document. XPointers specify locations inside a document, building on the XPath recommendation that we covered in Chapter 13, "XSL Transformations." I'll take a look at an overview now.
As of this writing, the XLink specification is a W3C working draft, released on February 21, 2000. You can find the most current version of this specification at http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink. You use XLinks to link one document to another. Here's what W3C says in the W3C working draft:
This specification defines the XML Linking Language (XLink), which allows elements to be inserted into XML documents in order to create and describe links between resources. It uses XML syntax ...
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