XLink conformance

Has anyone addressed the issue of what "XLink Conformance" might mean?

I suspect we'll see (and I suspect we should support) "XLink" applications
that only support simple XLinks, or (perhaps less worthy of support)
support extended links going from the source of links to targeted
documents, but not in any other direction. Then there's the issue of
linkbases...

While I'm much happier with the XLink specification than I was, I'm still
not sure what a 'conforming XLink processor' might look like.  

I'm planning on revising XLinkFilter to present XLink information from the
latest draft (and use SAX2), but it certainly won't be implementing
behavior, just notifying applications of what they're expected to do.

Simon St.Laurent
XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed.
http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books

Received on Monday, 31 July 2000 21:08:48 UTC