RE: XML Linking 1.0 and XML Base become W3C Recommendations

[Michael Brennan <Michael_Brennan@allegis.com>]

RDDL [1] fits the bill, in my mind. A very novel, useful, and yet simple
application of XLink. Jonathan Borden has provided an open source Java
implementation [2], and I see references to a C# API there on the site, as
well (though I haven't checked out the latter).

[1] http://www.rddl.org/
[2] http://www.openhealth.org/RDDL/rddl.jar

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Bray [mailto:tbray@textuality.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 10:37 AM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: XML Linking 1.0 and XML Base become W3C Recommendations
> 
> 
> At 12:06 PM 27/06/01 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >  I'm very happy to announce that 
> 
>  [XML Base and XLink]
> 
> >reached W3C Recommendation status today 27 June 2001.
> 
> Wow, this one's been a long time coming.  The original 
> XML WG spent most of the summer of *1997* on this one;
> I suspect a record for the longest-gestating W3C spec.
> 
> I look at the eventual result and I don't see anything
> nasty that's crept in.  Major congrats to the people
> who finally got the job done.
> 
> I think the potential application space for XLink is
> nearly unbounded, and think it ought to be become a 
> central technology.  That won't happen unless somebody
> buckles down and writes some code to show what it can
> do.  -Tim