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Originally Posted by Webnauts
Having a site providing the information as XML files, converted to HTML with XSLT?
If that is your point, the idea is damn cool.  |
Yes, even mor than that, convewrting XLink to HTML links in that example. To cite from page 218 in the book:
"This is an example of using XSLT to transfrom a set of XML resources and an associated linkbase into a form that is usable with current browsers (i.e., independent from XLink/XPointer support on the client site).
So, we can now use link roles to define (rather simplistically) the semantics of a link. The next level up from this is to increase the lvel of sophistication of semantic information that we attach to a link. One way of doing this would be to use the role attribute to define a resource that specifies more complex information about the link."
Google has started to index XML driven content and sites. See links above for more precise information.
Modern browser support for XML and XSLT is Ok. There is as far as I know today ( early 2008 ) no fully XLink and XPointer compliant browser. The example shows how you can make XML files for future browsers and SE's and convert it to a format that can be rendered with current browsers.