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<!-- . ( XLink) -->
<author xlink:type="resource" xlink:label="A">
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<name>John</name>
<surname>Smith</surname>
</author>
<!-- . URI-->
<book xlink:type="locator" xlink:label="B"
xlink:href="http://library.com/book.pdf"/>
<publisher xlink:type="locator" xlink:label="P"
xlink:href="http://publisher.com"/>
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<MyArcElement xlink:type="arc" xlink:from="A" xlink:to="B"/>
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. 1: XLink.
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<MySimpleLink
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xlink:type="simple"
xlink:href="http://library.com/book.xml#xpointer(doc/contents)">
Go to table of contents
<!--- -->
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XLip [11]).

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xmlns:xlink=
"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
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xlink:href="http://www.w3.org/">
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id="start">
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(@ (xlink:type "extended"))

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xlink:label="L1"/>

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</doc>

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element).

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<doc xmlns:xlink=
"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
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xlink:type="extended">
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xlink:href=
"doc1.xml#xpointer(//element2)"/>
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xlink:type="locator"
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<number>25</number>
<string>Hello world</string>
</doc>

. 4: doc1.xml () doc2.xml, XLink

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<doc xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<simple
xlink:type="simple"
xlink:href="doc2.xml#xpointer(doc/number)">
This is a simple link element
</simple>
<element1>Element 1</element1>
<simple
xlink:type="simple"
xlink:href="doc2.xml#doc/string/text())">Element2</simple>
</doc>
. 5: doc1.xml

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<doc xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<number>25</number>
<element1>Element 1</element1>
Hello world
</doc>
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xlink:show,

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,

2003,

6,

SXLink Sedna

http://www.elbib.ru/index.phtml?page=

elbib/rus/journal/2003/part5/LL

5.

[4] Extensible

Markup

Language

(XML)

1.0

Scheme -

(Third Edition). W3C Recommendation 04

February 2004. http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-

xml

XML-

Sedna.
[5] XML

Sedna

SXLink

XLink

sion

1.0.

Requirements

W3C

Note

Ver-

24-Feb-1999.

http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-xlink-req/

.
[6] T.

R.

Fielding,

U.C.

Irvine,
2396.

Uniform Resource Identiers (URI): Generic

Syntax.

XML

SXML

Berners-Lee,

L. Masinter. Request for Comments:

Information

Network

Working

Set

1998.

bin/rfc/rfc2396.html

Group,

August

http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/cgi-

XML-

[7] XPointer Framework. W3C Recommendation

25 March 2003. http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr-

XLink

framework/

XLink

[8] Irene Vatton, Vincent Quint, Jose Kahan, Kim

Cramer, Kim Nylander, Kathy Rosen, Michael

Scheme

Spinella. Amaya User Manual. Version 8.1 

July 2003. http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/

Manual.html

SXML
SXLink

[9] Mozilla

XLink

[10] X2X

March

22,

The
2004.

2.0

Documentation.

http://www.empolis.co.uk/x2xdocs2/

Documentation.

Organization.

http://www.mozilla.org/docs/

(API).
Scheme

Developer

Mozilla

index.html

[11] XLiP

(XLink

Processor)

User's

Guide.

http://www.labs.fujitsu.com/en/freesoft/xlip/
index.html

[1] XML
1.0.

Linking

W3C

Language

[12] R.

Kelsey,

Revised
(XLink)

Recommendation

27

XML.

J.

Rees

(editors).

SIGPLAN Notices, Vol. 33, No. 9, September

1998.

..

Clinger,

tation, Vol. 11, No. 1, August 1998, and ACM

2001.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink/
[2]

W.

Report on the Algorithmic Language

Scheme. Higher-Order and Symbolic Compu-

Version

June

http://www.schemers.org/Documents/

Standards/R5RS/r5rs.pdf

(25-11-2003).

http://www.elbib.ru/index.phtml?page=

[13] Oleg

el-

sion

bib/rus/methodology/xmlbase/glossary_XML

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SXML,

revi-

12,

2004.

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[14] XML

Information

W3C

Set

(Second

Recommendation

Edition).

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2004.

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[15] Oleg

Kiselyov.

Building

Parser

Through

XML

Programming.

Better

Functional

http://xml.coverpages.org/

xmlPapers2000Q4.html
[16]

XML-

Scheme.

28,

4,

2002.

http://www.maik.rssi.ru/journals/procom.htm
[17]

XML

Path

(XPath)

W3C

16

1.0.
1999.

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[18] Christian Nentwich,
Emmerich

and

xlinkit:
and

Smart

Licia Capra,
Anthony
Consistency

Link

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Finkelstein.
Checking

Generation

Service.

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[19] Sedna

Native

XML

DBMS.

()

().

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sedna.htm

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