A group named Web consortium XML linking is creating stipulations to facilitate more superior hypertext functionality on web. This description is about the goals and approaches of XML linking. It also describe the HTML linking limitations seeks to overcome the XML linking. Once the linking is done it does the survey of working groups main specifications.
A short description about background of xml linking is mentioned below:
You might know HTML tag set and element type such as A are most in use and famous as well. However, still there are
XML is a markup language for structured documentation. Structured documents are documents that contain both content (words, pictures, etc.) and some indication of what role that content plays (for example, content in a section heading has a different meaning from content in a footnote, which means something different than content in a figure caption, etc.). Almost all documents have some structure.
A markup language is a mechanism to identify structures in a document. The XML specification defines a standard way of adding markup to documents.
So XML
Introduction
The extraordinary growth of the World Wide Web has been fueled by the ability it gives authors to easily and cheaply distribute electronic documents to an international audience. As Web documents have become larger and more complex, however, Web content providers have begun to experience the limitations of a medium that does not provide the extensibility, structure, and data checking needed for large-scale commercial publishing. The ability of Java applets to embed powerful data manipulation capabilities in Web clients makes even clearer
Abstract
The Web Consortium's XML Linking working group is developing specifications to enable more advanced hypertext functionality on the Web: in particular fine-grained anchors, external annotation, and bi-directional links. This paper examines basic goals and approaches; describes HTML linking limitations XML Linking seeks to overcome; and surveys the Working Group's primary specifications: XPath, XPointer, and XLink. As of this writing, the last two, while well advanced, are not final recommendations, and so are subject to change. Consult the