XLink within XHTML

E

Erik Jälevik

Is it possible to use XLink within an XHTML document?

I am trying the following in Mozilla Firebird 0.7 (which supposedly supports
XLink) and I don't get a link:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:xl="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<body>
<p xl:type='simple'
xl:href='http://www.google.com'
xl:show='replace'
xl:actuate='onRequest'>
Link test
</p>
</body>
</html>

Am I getting something wrong here? The linking works from a pure xml
document.

Btw, the only reason I'm not using <a href>s is that it's for a university
assignment and we're specifically forbidden to use HTML links...

Thanks,
Erik
 
M

Martin Honnen

Erik said:
Is it possible to use XLink within an XHTML document?

I am trying the following in Mozilla Firebird 0.7 (which supposedly supports
XLink) and I don't get a link:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:xl="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<body>
<p xl:type='simple'
xl:href='http://www.google.com'
xl:show='replace'
xl:actuate='onRequest'>
Link test
</p>
</body>
</html>

Am I getting something wrong here? The linking works from a pure xml
document.
Click to expand...

How do you serve the document to Mozilla? I guess it can't work if you
serve it as text/html but if you serve it as text/xml then it could work.
 
E

Erik Jälevik

Martin Honnen said:
How do you serve the document to Mozilla? I guess it can't work if you
serve it as text/html but if you serve it as text/xml then it could work.
Click to expand...

Hmm, I'm just trying it out locally at the moment. The file has extension
xml so Mozilla should assume it's being "served" as text/xml. I'll try and
upload it to the web server though to see if the link works.

Thanks,
Erik
 
E

Erik Jälevik

Nope, even from the web server, "Link test" just shows up as normal text.

Erik
 
M

Martin Honnen

Erik said:
Nope, even from the web server, "Link test" just shows up as normal text.
Click to expand...

The following XLink works for me with Netscape 7.1:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:myElements="http://whatever"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<head>
<title>simple XLinks</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>
<myElements:myLink xlink:type="simple"
xlink:href="http://www.kibo.com/"
xlink:show="replace"
xlink:actuate="user">Visit GOD</myElements:myLink>
</p>
</body>
</html>

I am not sure applying xlink attributes to standard XHTML elements is
supposed to work.
 

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