(OT) XPointer or XLink?

Jaap has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Let's say i have an xml document like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<document>
<products>
  <product>
    <name>Stereo</name>
  </product>
  <product>
    <name>TV</name>
  </product>
</products>

<manufacturers>
  <manufacturer>
    <name>Sony</name>
  </manufacturer>
</manufacturers>
</document>
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Now i want to embed the information that the TV is made by Sony. What would be the semantically correct way to do this?

According to Eve Maler,

XLink governs how you insert links into your XML document, where the link might point to anything (e.g., a GIF file)
XPointer governs the fragment identifier that can go on a URL when you're linking *to* an XML document, *from* anywhere (e.g., from an HTML file).

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Re: (OT) XPointer or XLink? by holli (Abbot) on Dec 31, 2004 at 18:28 UTC
i would go for something like: `<document> <products> <product mid="183"> <name>Stereo</name> </product> <product mid="182"> <name>TV</name> </product> </products> <manufacturers> <manufacturer mid="182"> <name>Sony</name> </manufacturer> <manufacturer mid="183"> <name>SABA</name> </manufacturer> </manufacturers> </document>` [download] no xlink or xpointer at all.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: (OT) XPointer or XLink? by Jaap (Curate) on Jan 01, 2005 at 10:37 UTC
Your solution smells very... SQL like. It would be nice if i could ask my XML database (eXist) for something like this (XPath): `//product[name="Stereo"]/manufacturer` [download] or something.	[reply] [d/l]