here()

Consider a simple slide show. In this example, here()/following::SLIDE[1] refers to the next slide in the show. here()/preceding::SLIDE[1] refers to the previous slide in the show. Presumably this would be used in conjunction with a style sheet that showed one slide at a time.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<SLIDESHOW xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
  <SLIDE>
    <H1>Welcome to the slide show!</H1>
    <BUTTON xlink:type="simple"
            xlink:href="here()/following::SLIDE[1]">
      Next
    </BUTTON>
  </SLIDE>
  <SLIDE>
    <H1>This is the second slide</H1>
    <BUTTON xlink:type="simple" 
            xlink:href="here()/preceding::SLIDE[1]">
      Previous
    </BUTTON>
    <BUTTON xlink:type="simple" 
            xlink:href="here()/following::SLIDE[1]">
      Next
    </BUTTON>
  </SLIDE>
  <SLIDE>
    <H1>This is the second slide</H1>
    <BUTTON xlink:type="simple" 
            xlink:href="here()/preceding::SLIDE[1]">
      Previous
    </BUTTON>
    <BUTTON xlink:type="simple" 
           xlink:href="here()/following::SLIDE[1]">
      Next
    </BUTTON>
  </SLIDE>
  <SLIDE>
    <H1>This is the third slide</H1>
    <BUTTON xlink:type="simple" 
            xlink:href="here()/preceding::SLIDE[1]">
      Previous
    </BUTTON>
    <BUTTON xlink:type="simple" 
            xlink:href="here()/following::SLIDE[1]">
      Next
    </BUTTON>
  </SLIDE>
  ...
  <SLIDE>
    <H1>This is the last slide</H1>
    <BUTTON xlink:type="simple"
            xlink:href="here()/preceding::SLIDE[1]">
      Previous
    </BUTTON>
  </SLIDE>

</SLIDESHOW>

Generally, the here() location term is only used in fully relative URIs in XLinks. If any URI part is included, it must be the same as the URI of the current document.