Re: DOCBOOK: Linking in DocBook V5.0

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>]

At 11:37 AM -0500 11/14/01, Adam Turoff wrote:

>For those of us who aren't keeping track of XLink progress, can
>you please provide a 30-second refresher of what an extended link
>is?  :-)
>

It's an XML syntax for labeled, directed graphs in which the vertices 
are XML elements of arbitrary type and the labels are URLs. It has no 
particular semantics beyond that. Applications are free to invent 
their own as seems useful.
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