The XML Linking Language, or XLink, is an XML markup language used for creating hyperlinks within XML documents. It is a W3C standard.

XLink is a way to allow elements to be inserted into XML documents in order to create and describe links between resources, whether internal or external to the original document.

=The XLink specification=

==Simple links==

A simple link is familiar from HTML. It links one element of a web document to another via a Uniform Resource Identifier.

==Extended links==

XLink supports not only simple links but also extended links . Extended links may be used to connect two or more resources via a single link, which need not be contained within any of them. This makes it possible to associate metadata or other supplemental information with resources without editing them. XLink also supports richer information about link types and the roles of each resource that an XLink connects.

=Software using XLink=

Here will follow a list of softwares using XLink.

=External links=