Linking Elements

• Any element can be a link

• XLink elements are identified by an xlink:type attribute with one of these six values:

  • simple

  • extended

  • locator

  • arc

  • resource

  • title

• Linking elements are identified by an xlink:type attribute with one of these two values:

  • simple

  • extended

• Each linking element contains an xlink:href attribute whose value is the URI of the resource being linked to.

• An xmlns:xlink attribute associates the xlink prefix with the http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink namespace.