XLink, XPointer and XSL
XLink will provide sophisticated hyperlinking missing in HTML:
- Links that lead user to multiple destinations
- Bidirectional links
- Links with special behaviors:
- Expand-in-place / Replace / Create new window
- Link on load / Link on user action
- Link databases
XPointer will provide access to arbitrary portions of XML resource. Interesting IPR issues!
XSL stylesheet language will provide extensibility and transformation facilities (e.g. create a table of contents)
<commentary xml:link="extended" inline="false">
<locator href="smith2.1" role="Essay"/>
<locator href="jones1.4" role="Rebuttal"/>
<locator href="robin3.2" role="Comparison"/>