Re: Element to Element Linking

["Ram Kumar" <kumar.sydney@gmail.com>]

This is an interesting article about linking resources. Any ideas
coming out of this approach?

Regards,

Ram

On 8/17/06, Ram Kumar <kumar.sydney@gmail.com> wrote:
> XCMTDMW: Element to Element Linking
> Eliot Kimber, Dr. Macro Blog
>
> This article is one in series of highly informative discussions on
> technologies related to XML Content Management. Kimber writes: What do
> we mean by "linking" in the context of XML document processing? The
> most general definition is "a semantic object that establishes a set of
> one or more relationships among uniquely-addressible XML components".
> This definition is reflected by the XLink and HyTime standards, which
> provide syntax and semantics for establishing arbitrarily-complex
> relationships between arbirarily-addressible things. XLink is limited
> to the domain of linking among XML components, HyTime provides generic
> facilities for making anything generically addressable and therefore
> enables linking anything to anything via a single standard representation
> mechanism (groves). A link is a semantic relationship whose meaning is
> independent of how the relationship is established. It doesn't matter
> how a link is expressed syntactically in your data: XLink, XIinclude,
> HyTime, HTML, your own 20-year-old link markup... addressing, on which
> semantic linking depends, is entirely syntactic. Addressing is the
> plumbing or mechanics that let you physically connect things together:
> the pointers. The addressing syntax you use has many practical
> implications, including the availability of implementations, the cost
> of implementation and processing, the opportunities for interoperation,
> and so on, but the specific syntax you use doesn't affect the meaning
> of the relationships established by the links that do the addressing.
> Clear thinking about linking requires that you be able to make a
> complete and clear distinction between the syntax-independent and
> syntax-specific parts of linking.
>
> http://drmacros-xml-rants.blogspot.com/2006/07/xcmtdmw-element-to-element-linking.html
>