Michael Kay <> writes:
>
> > you can put down "XML Linking."
>
> No thankyou.
>
> Hyperlinks belong in the user interface space, XML should
> represent information independently of the user interface. It
> was always architecturally wrong to do hyperlinking at the
> XML level and the attempt should not be repeated.
>
> "Modelling relationships in XML" - that would be different.
Let me play dumb for a moment (no snide comments please). Given that:
<a>
<b idref="1"/>
</a>
<c id="1"/>
implies all kinds of relationships between {a,b,c} (even more so if you
define a schema for it), can you expand on your request? What do you
need that XML doesn't already have? Are you really asking for a way to
model inter-document (data instance) relationships? Or perhaps an XML
meta-modeling standard of sorts? In either case, I end up recursing
back to base XML and wondering what else do you need? Is this really a
request for a better schema language?
