XML Hypertext Example

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<story date="January 9, 2001"
       xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
       xmlns:xinclude="http://www.w3.org/1999/XML/xinclude"
       xml:base="http://www.cafeaulait.org/">

  <p>
    The W3C XML Linking Working Group has pushed the 
    <cite xlink:type="simple"
      xlink:href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xptr-20010108">
      XPointer specification
    </cite> 
    back to working draft status. The specific issue that was 
    uncovered during Candidate Recommendation was some 
    <span xlink:type="simple"
      xlink:href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr#xpointer(//div[@class='div3'][7])">
      confusion
    </span> 
    over how to integrate XPointers, particularly those in non-XML documents, 
    with namespaces. 
   </p>

   <p>
     It's also come to light in this draft that Sun has 
     <span xlink:type="simple"
      xlink:href=
      "http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-linking-comments/2000OctDec/0092.html"
      >
      claimed a patent</span> on some of the technologies needed to 
      implement XPointer. I think this is particularly offensive because Eve 
      L. Maler, a Sun employee, served as co-chair of the XML Linking 
      Working Group and a co-editor of the XPointer specification. As usual 
      Sun wants to use this as a club to lock implementers and users into a 
      licensing agreement that goes beyond what Sun and the W3C could 
      otherwise demand. The specific patent is <cite>United States Patent 
      No. 5,659,729, Method and system for implementing hypertext scroll 
      attributes</cite>, issued to Jakob Nielsen in 1997. The patent was 
      filed on February 1, 1996. It claims:
  </p>
  <blockquote>
    <xinclude:include 
      href=
      "http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US05659729__#xpointer(//abstract)"
      >
    </xinclude:include>
  </blockquote>
  
</story>