title: I don't understand the difference between Django-Rest-Framework's built-in Hyperlink's and vs. HAL
body: <p>I've never really heard of <a href="http://stateless.co/hal_specification.html" rel="nofollow">HAL</a> until I started working on a new project that is making use of it.  From what I can tell, it's basically a way to easily follow links to traverse your way around a restful API's structure.</p>
  
  <p>So if I understand this correctly, both tools are to make it easier to traverse around an API's documentation to see all the different means of communicating with said API.   Essentially both of these are tools used for documentation purposes only? </p>