XML Linking Concepts

One of the basic purposes we need links for is to get better, more efficient access to information. To achieve this purpose, we almost never need only links but a combination of different techniques. And we definitely never need only techniques but a good, user-oriented concept.

XML and related standards provide linking techniques that fulfill fundamental technical requirements for building powerful link networks. Since XML is designed as a web language and therefore shall be supported by a wide range of tools and applications, the technical preconditions will become much better than they were in the past.

Apart from this fact, the real challenge still remains: Building good, user-oriented concepts. This can't be done without a planned, well -organized mixture of abstraction and concrete testing during the design and implementation phase and afterwards.