So way, waaaay back when I was learning about web technologies, it was 
suggested that XML is the future, and that one day it would be possible 
to do away with HTML and just use XML.

Sure enough, if you write an XML file and attach a CSS style sheet to 
it, with enough work you can make it so that the XML contains tags that 
represent the actual document structure you want (rather than what HTML 
provides you with), and then the CSS renders it in whatever way you fancy.

As an experiment, I tried to see how far I could get with this. I got 
quite far, and then I hit a snag: I found two things that HTML can do, 
but I can't find CSS properties to achieve the same thing with raw XML.

1. Hyperlinks.

2. Images.

Anybody know how to do this?

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