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XML Books - (click to order/read reviews; check more XML books at Amazon)
Professional Stylesheets for HTML and XML by Frank Boumphrey, Wrox Press, 1998
Fine starter for HTMLers, great sections on XML, old XSL, CSS, great style reference.
XML Applications by Frank Boumphrey et.al., Wrox Press, 1998
My favorite intro to XML but with depth; great real world examples.
XML: A Primer - by Simon St. Laurent, MISPress, 1998
A good all purpose text; a good choice as a starter book.
XML in Plain English - by Sandra E. Eddy, M&T Books, 1998
More of a reference than a learning tool; can look up usage, definitions; great CSS section.
XML: Extensible Markup Language - by Elliotte Rusty Harold, IDG Books, 1998
Fine all purpose book with focus on web production.
All purpose text; not best for starter book; a bit dated; good HTML to XML section.
XML for Dummies - by Ed Tittel et.al, IDG Books, 1998 - Avoid this one
XML On-Line Resources
Microsoft's XML Center is extensive; also see the Magazine with a regular column on Extreme XML.Project Cool's Developer Zone has an XML Zone with cutting edge articles.
Articles about XML
The XML Spec is the definitive statement of the status of XML.
The XML FAQ (maintained for the W3C) is a great starting point.
XML.COM might be the ultimate repository of information on events, articles and tools.
XML-EDI provides a standard framework for electronic data exchange.
Webreview's XML coverage has links to outside articles and its own repository.
Refsnes Data offers a good series of XML Articles and a number of XML examples and applications.
What is XML is a primer by Norm Walsh; his XML Entities tries to clear up this topic.
Tutorials
The Microsoft tutorial is one of the most thorough available.
IBM's XML zone - offers great resources including thiswhat is XML primer.
Richard Lander's XML site - offers tutorials on validity and well-formedness; xsl to come.
Hotwired's tutorials on XML, XSL and XML attributes and entities are quite accessible.
XSL and Style
Styling XML Documents from Webtechniques is a cogent description of the XSL and its use.
Microsoft's XSL Reference is extensive.
XML.com's what is XSLT article.
W3C has the
XSL Working Draft and an XSL What's New w/history, resources, tools.
There is now a recommendation on associating stylesheets with XML documents.
XSLInfo has resources, software and XSL Tutorials.
Also see the Sitebuilder column on Extreme XML which often features XSL.
Tools
XML.COM has guides to authoring and management tools; an older review dates to 6-98.XMLSoftware is a total reference, browsers, conversion, editors, parsers, database tools, more.
List of free XML software.
<oXygen/> is an XML editor that supports XML, XSL, TXT, XSD and DTD documents. Its code insight leads to valid XML.
XML Spy shows great promise as a powerful XML editor and a simple DTD and XSL editor.
Visual XML - enables you to create and modify DTD and XML documents.
-Online
STG offers an XML Validator (requires DTD) that works with a local file or entered code.
Richard Tobin offers an XML well formedness checker and validator.
Microsoft has an online XML parser/validator (requires IE5) for use with files or code. Isogen offers a way to test your XPointers online.
XHTML Tools
Use HTML Tidy or HTML kit to convert froim HTML to XHTML.Specific Issues
Using Elements vs. Using Attributes
This OASIS Forum - discusses the issue and some present their
Rules of Thumb.
DTD's and Repositories
The role of DTD's in Electronic Data Interchange.
Namespaces
The namespace specification is a starting point.
Namespaces in XML presents the rationale for their use with good descriptive
Examples.
XML Namespaces is an alternate explanation of the mechanism.
The use of namespaces is clarified with these 19 Questions.
Stylesheets with XML
Stylesheets with XML discusses using CSS with XML with examples.
Going to/from SGML/XML/HTML
Going from HTML to XML is a Microsoft treatment of the subject.
Converting an SGML DTD to XML is by Norm Walsh.
RTF2XML concerts RTF to XML. Majix converst Word to XML
XML with FrontPage
You can add XML Support to FrontPage.
Newsgroups/Mailing Lists/Forums
comp.text.xml is a semi-active newsgroup
Developer.Com hosts a busy forum;
Project Cool offers a mailing list and a forum.
XML-Dev is for developer issues; XML-L is user oriented; (SUBSCRIBE XML-L/DEV).
Mulberry Technologies does XML training and hosts an XSL mailing list/forum.
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