LINK element and navigation

[wiklendt]

hi everyone,

hopefully this'll be a quickie:

in the head section of my html file, i have:

	<link hreflang="en" rel="prev" title="page03" href="./page03.htm">
	<link hreflang="en" rel="next" title="page05" href="./page05.htm">

and then later in the body i have:

	<a href="./page03.htm" title="page03">	PREV</a> | 
	<a href="./menu.htm">			MENU</a> | 
	<a href="./page05.htm" title="page05">	NEXT</a>

can i use any attribute in the link elements to reference to
the href in the link element from the anchor element?

that is, use the information in the link element to draw on
from the anchor element...

meaning, to pair:

	<link hreflang="en" rel="prev" title="page03" href="./page03.htm">
	...
	<a href="#prev" title="page03">	PREV</a> |

so that i can avoid re-writing the uri twice in the same page?
making it also easy to update the uri in only one place if it changes.

http://www.w3c.org does say:

Links specified by LINK are not rendered with the document's
contents, although user agents may render them in other ways
(e.g., as navigation tools).

but i haven't found anywhere in the documentation on HOW to do it
specifically in a VISUAL browser (via developer, not user agent).

i'd /prefer/ not to use javascript if possible, even css if it can be avoided.
i want these links to work even when ppl have javascript turned off and css
overridden. just pure and simple HTML (can be transitional). hence prefer. Css is o.k., i suppose i expect most ppl will use the website's css.

if there's no way around it, then i'll have to do the hard slog and
put it all in manually as hard code with html. one would think, though that
the link element would lend itself very nicely to this sort of behaviour.

the intention is to have a non-frames friendly site.

thanks in advance.
wiklendt.

[Twey]

can i use any attribute in the link elements to reference to
the href in the link element from the anchor element?

No.
The <link> element and the <a> element have absolutely nothing to do with one another. The only suitable way to do what you ask is with a server-side language.