Re: Analysing XLink

Peter Murray-Rust (peter@ursus.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 29 Jul 1998 22:32:36


At 14:15 29/07/98 +0200, Lloyd Rutledge wrote:
[from Les Carr]
>
>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.

Many thanks for this contribution. I haven't yet looked at it but it seems
just what I have been waiting for.

>
>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.)

I like this re-use of existing software.

P.

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