[DRAFT] QA Tips - Use links in your document

This is a draft Open for comments for future publications
		http://www.w3.org/2001/06tips/


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Title: Use links in your document

HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and XHTML 1.1 have a mechanism which gives the 
possibility to Web authors to add external information related to the 
HTML document. These external resources  can be styling information 
(CSS), help for navigation, information under another form (RSS), 
contact information, etc.

The "link" element is used to add this information in the header of 
your document in the "head" element.

Let see a practical example, with one page of an astronomy Web site. 
The page is about the planet Earth on a section which describes the 
solar system.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
         "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
	<title>Earth - Astronomy Weblog</title>

<link rel="Start" href="http://astro.example.org/solar-system" />
<link rel="Prev" href="/solar-system/venus/" />
<link rel="Next" href="/solar-system/mars/" />
<!--
	Start gives the starting point of the section
	Prev gives the previous item, here the planet Mars
	Next gives the next item, here the planet Venus
-->

<link rel="Contents" href="/solarsystem/contents.html" />

<!--
	Contents gives the possibility to access to an index of files
-->

<link rel="Help" href="/website-help.html" />

<!--
	Help will gives you the possibility to give a page to help people with 
using your Website
-->

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" 
href="/updates.rdf" />

<!--
	It will give the possibility of RSS Readers to find the Web site 
updates feed
-->

<link rel="meta" type="application/rdf+xml" title="FOAF" 
href="http://astro.example.org/foaf.xrdf" />

<!--
	It will give the possibility of FOAF Readers to find the data on the 
author
-->

<link href="mailto:webmaster@example.org" rev="made" />

<!--
	A way to contact the author of the Web site
-->

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" 
href="/style/astro.css" />

<!--
	Specify the CSS to display your Web site
-->

</head>

<body>
.... Here the rest of the page.

Some user agents (browsers) or alternate applications benefit of these 
links and helps people in their daily use of website.

Ref: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4.01/struct/links.html#edef-LINK


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Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
W3C Conformance Manager
*** Be Strict To Be Cool ***

Received on Monday, 18 August 2003 17:52:49 UTC