- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:39:48 -0400
- To: Jim Owens <jowens@magma.ca>
- cc: www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org
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/
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