Re: rendering Xlink from a XML by using XSL

[Eric van der Vlist <vdv at dyomedea dot com>]

Handren Ahmed wrote:
> 
> hi!
> 
> Thank you for youre answer.

I'll try to answer your next one, but I think we are deriving off-topic,
that the question would be better debated on xml-dev and that you should
carry it on over there if you want to pursue the debate ;)

> What can I do, if I want to use xlink:show='embed'? is there any Xhtml-tag
> even for that?

No, except maybe using frames.

In that case, you'd better copy the nodesets that are linked with these
attributes.

> The point is, I am writing a composition "in swedish" about the XML, and the
> purpose with that composition is to show the strength of XML in combination
> with its related teknik such as XSL.
> I thought that I could use all of the Xlinks beauty, such as show="embed" or
> xlink:type="extended" ect, but it turnes out that it is imposible to me to
> implement it.
> Could you please tell me how else I could present XML-taggs if not with XSL
> "excluding XQL, DOM, SAX, JDOM".
>
> How can I derive advantage out of Xlink...how can I see the effect of the
> Xlinks-atribute and behavior "content-role, content-title, acutate, shoe,
> behavior, ..." without involvment of Xhtml.

The short answer, IMHO, is that you can't yet.

XLink is not yet a recommendation and is not supported by the browsers.

While you can rather easily take advantage of such new technologies and
specifications on a server where you control more or less what you're
installing, it's a very different story on the client side.

Using XLink now is taking a bet on something that will not be widely
used client side before:

a) it is a recommendation,
b) it is implemented by new browsers
c) these browsers have taken a significant share within the installed
base.

Untill then, the best you can do is to transform these new features into
good old (X)HTML using XSLT (client or server side) !

My 0,02 Euros,

Eric

> Well, I got a lot of questions, but I well not disturb you more than thatfor
> the moment:-).
> 
> NB: I'am using IE5.5
> 
> Thank you very much
> Handren A
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@mulberrytech.com
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of Eric van der Vlist
> Sent: den 10 november 2000 12:33
> To: xsl-list@mulberrytech.com
> Subject: Re: rendering Xlink from a XML by using XSL
> 
> Handren Ahmed wrote:
> >
> > hi!
> >
> > That was exactly what I meant!
> 
> :)
> 
> > I did write following code but it doesn't work either.
> > In my xml file I wrote:
> >
> > <Adress xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="http://www.dsv.su.se"
> > xlink:show="new"
> > xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink/"
> > >Klick here</Adress>
> >
> > In my xsl file I try to show that link by writing the follwing code:
> > <xsl:template match="*[@xlink:href]">
> >         <xsl:value-of select="."/>
> > </xsl:template>
> >
> > How can I use Xlink? How can I click on the xlink:-)?
> 
> In this case, you'll probably want to generate some (X)HTML to visualize
> this link.
> 
> To generate a (X)HTML hypertext link, you just need to generate a
> classical "a" element:
> 
> <xsl:template match="*[@xlink:href]">
>   <a href="{@xlink:href}">
>     <xsl:apply-templates/>
>   </a>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> And, if you want to handle the xlink:show="new", you can add a more
> restrictive template that will be higher priority when xlink:show has
> this value:
> 
> <xsl:template match="*[@xlink:href and @xlink:show='new']">
>   <a href="{@xlink:href}" target="_blank">
>     <xsl:apply-templates/>
>   </a>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Eric
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