Re: I just want to use a link! What now?

jowens@magma.ca (Jim Owens) writes:
>I need to use XML for a specific tech-writing goal. To teach myself 
>about XML, I'm creating a small, very simple web page coded in XML and 
>rendered with CSS (no DTD just yet).

Cool.

>On this web page, I want to use graphics and hypertext links.  I
>thought I could use Xlinks for that, but now I'm guessing not. 
>Browser support is too thin. There's not much enthusiasm for Xlinks,
>and I'm not sure why.
>
>Is there some other technology I should be using? Do I need to
>transform the XML into XHTML or something before feeding it to the
>browser?  Would I need, say, CGI scripting using an XSL interpreter?

That's possible, but you can do a lot just with XML and possibly a bit
of HTML thrown in for graphics and hypertext.  These articles are old,
but they still seem mostly to reflect the state of things:

http://www.xml.com/pub/2000/03/29/tutorial/index.html
http://www.xml.com/pub/2000/04/19/opera/index.html
http://www.xml.com/pub/2000/05/03/msie/index.html
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/05/03/browserchart/index.html

Mozilla has pretty decent support for simple XLinks, if you want to
stick with one browser.

Simon St.Laurent
http://simonstl.com/