XLink promises an enormous leap forward for hypertext on the Internet, while providing only a taste of what more hypertext-focused systems have attempted to deliver. As a former chair of the XLink working group put it, "XLink is hypertext for the 1970s." That marks a significant advance in manageability and flexibility over the kinds of hypertext linking we have today in HTML - an advance, even by the high standards of the hypertext community.
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