Goal (Mission ?)

From the charter of the Working Group:

The XML Linking WG continues the effort begun in the XML WG in January 1997.

The objective of the XML Linking WG is to design advanced, scalable, and maintainable hyperlinking and addressing functionality for XML. Such functionality includes the hyperlinking abilities of HTML, but extends them to include at least the following:

• Linking elements in XML documents that allow arbitrary names and semantics
• Linking elements in XML documents not co-located with any of the resources they associate
• Addressing into logical sub-structures of XML documents in a robust way
• Allowing link authors to influence the behavior of traversed links in basic ways