Analysing XLink

Lloyd Rutledge (Lloyd.Rutledge@cwi.nl)
Wed, 29 Jul 1998 14:15:25 +0200


Les Carr of the University of Southampton has asked me to pass this email
along as a post to this group. It discusses an XLink implementation
that he has begun. His entry is at the bottom of this post.

-Lloyd

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As part of the Open Hypermedia Community's "Response to XLink" I have started to implement a set of JAVA packages for developing XLink-aware applications.

Currently it is at a fairly rudimentary stage testing-wise, but I have mainly concentrated on trying to make high-level link processing methods that are generally useful. There is currently ONE sample application scenario, based on the LTXML group's ``Knit'' utility, although others are planned.

A document describing the work so far can be found at http://journals.ecs.soton.ac.uk/xml4j/xlinkexperience.html If you would like to have a copy of the software as it exists, please let me know. (It builds on top of IBM's XML4JAVA parser & XPointer packages, but it has added better support for string()-based pointers.)

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Leslie Carr
Tel: +44 1703 594479		Fax: +44 1703 592865   
Email: L.Carr@ecs.soton.ac.uk	URL: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lac
Dept of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK