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To add to Bob's points below:
Most of the observations I've seen on this list regarding why there is
little use of Xlink make the following points:
(1) Too heavyweight (i.e. too much information required to describe
links, even in the simplest mode)
(2) Includes presentation aspects with data in a manner that was not
originally intended for XML
Kind Regards,
Joseph Chiusano
Booz Allen Hamilton
Strategy and Technology Consultants to the World
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DuCharme, Bob (LNG-CHO) [mailto:bob.ducharme@lexisnexis.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 12:41 PM
> To: 'Nadia.Swaby@pwc.ca'; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] XLink - anyone using?
>
> >My question is this: Is anyone using XLink?
>
> XBRL uses some XLink, SVG uses a little bit, and that's about it.
>
> >How useful do you find it?
>
> XLink provides some nice constructs to help you model the
> relationships, but using it won't buy you anything in terms
> of automation or ease of use when plugging in tools, which is
> usually the main reason to use a standard.
>
> >What implementations are out there?
>
> These days, virtually none. I wrote something about how
> little XLink was used almost three years ago at
> http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/03/13/xlink.html and there's
> been little progress since.
>
> Are you using an internally developed DTD or a public one
> that we might have heard of, like DocBook? Also, how solid of
> a way to refer to a specific document do you have? I assume
> that "document #335" is just something you made up for an
> example; is there an intranet URI or some other internal
> identifier that can unambiguously point to a specific
> document so that a processing system can find it? For each
> output medium that those documents will be converted to, can
> these identifiers be converted to identifiers that work in
> that medium? (e.g.
> whether or not the internal identifiers are URIs, can then be
> converted to URLs when the documents are converted to HTML?)
>
> Bob DuCharme www.snee.com/bob <bob@
> snee.com> weblog on linking-related topics:
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1191
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nadia.Swaby@pwc.ca [mailto:Nadia.Swaby@pwc.ca]
> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 11:20 AM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: [xml-dev] XLink - anyone using?
>
> I am a newbie to the list and I would like to say hi!
>
> My question is this: Is anyone using XLink?
> What implementations are out there?
>
> Background: I am work for a big aerospace company and we are
> converting all out procedures from Framemaker to XML.
> Everything is stored in Documentum.
> These procedures have tons of links: Links to other
> procedures, links to MS Office documents, but mostly, links
> to other sections in the same procedure.
>
> We have our Documentum XML application set up so that each
> section is a chunk. Therefore, we can't use an internal
> (IDREF) linking mechanism when linking between sections. So,
> I am trying to figure out what the best method of linking
> between sections would be. I am also looking at linking
> between sections in other documents (i.e. document #331
> section 3 has a link to document #335 section 5).
>
> Any insights would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Nadia Swaby
>
>
>
>
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