Description: When the first public XHTML 2.0 Working Draft was released in early August, one of the most common reactions, at least in the XML developer community, was to wonder why the HTML Working Group (HWG) wasn\'t using XLink. XHTML 2.0\'s refusal to use XLink as its hypertext linking layer was seen as its chief defect. Perhaps, if it isn\'t suitable or appropriate for use in XHTML 2.0, XLink hasn\'t any future at all? As early as the Final Call for comments on XLink, (members of the) HWG suggested that XLink