RE: [xml-dev] XPointer is dead. What about XLink?

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Michael Kay <>
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"'Costello, Roger L.'" <>,
Date
2009-08-27T12:54:37Z
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RE: [xml-dev] XPointer is dead. What about XLink?
> What about XLink, is it being pursued by either standards 
> groups or by implementors?


Well, for better or worse, XLink is actually used, for example in XBRL, but
I think all the associated processing logic (and there isn't much) generally
goes in the application, exactly as if the application had defined the links
as part of its own vocabulary.

Regards,

Michael Kay
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