XML, Web Services, and the Data Revolution

By Frank  P.  Coyle

Books

St. Laurent, Simon, XML: A Primer, 3rd ed. (Foster City, CA: IDG Books, 2001)

The third edition of this classic includes new discussions of XLink, XPointer, XPath, and XSLT.

Harold, Elliotte Rusty, XML Bible (Foster City, CA: IDG Books, 2001)

A comprehensive discussion of XML and its supporting technologies.

Web

General XML

http://www.xml.com/axml/testaxml.htm

The annotated XML 1.0 specification by Tim Bray. One window displays the actual specification and an adjacent window provides commentary. Just click on commentary links.

http://www.w3.org

The Web site of the W3C. Contains specifications and links to all things XML.

http://www.xml.org

Hosted by OASIS, this Web site advertises itself as the XML Industry Portal. It maintains regularly updated links to XML industry news.

http://xml.coverpages.org/

A Web site with literally thousands of links relating to XML and its numerous associated technologies. Maintained by Robin Cover, the site is a cornucopia of XML information.

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml- names /

The W3C XML Namespaces Recommendation.

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/1999/01/namespaces.html

Article by Tim Bray on using namespaces.

http://www.xml.com/

A site maintained by the O'Reilly publishing group . Contains numerous links to XML articles and books.

http://ibm.com/developerworks/xml/

IBM's Web site dedicated to XML technology.

http://www.xmlhack.com

A news and resource site for XML developers.

http://www.zvon.org/

Billed as a guide to the XML galaxy, the site maintains numerous links, tutorials, and downloads.

http://www.w3schools.com/

A Web site (not part of the W3C) with numerous tutorials on XML and related technologies.

XML Schema

http://www.xml101.com/dtd/

Tutorials on how to build and use DTDs.

http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema

The W3C XML Schema home page.

http://www.oasis- open .org/cover/schemas.html

Robin Cover's collection of schema information covering DTDs, XML Schema, and more.

XML Presentation

http://www.xhtml.org/

A central site for articles and tutorials on XHTML.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms/

W3C site for XForms.

http://www. renderx .com/tutorial.html

Tutorial for XSL-FO.

http://www.w3.org/TR/voicexml/

The W3C's VoiceXML Web site.

http://www.voicexml.org

Web site of the VoiceXML Forum.

XML Manipulation

http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/

W3C specifications for XSL, XSLT, XPath, and more.

http://www.xslt.com/

XSLT related tools, tutorials, and resources.

http://www.w3.org/1999/09/ql/docs/xquery.html

"XML Query Languages: Experiences and Exemplars".

http://www.w3.org/DOM/

The W3C DOM home page. Contains links to all the DOM versions.

http://www.saxproject.org/

The official SAX Web site.

http://www.megginson.com/SAX/

David Megginson's SAX Web site. Megginson led the initiative that created SAX.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath

The W3C XPath 1.0 Recommendation.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink/

The W3C XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.0 Recommendation.

XML Infrastructure

http://www.w3.org/RDF/

The W3C home page for RDF.

http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-xml-infoset-req

The W3C requirements for InfoSet.

http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/Primer.html

A primer on RDF and the Semantic Web written by Tim Berners-Lee (with his director's hat off).

http://www.scientificamerican.com/2001/0501issue/0501berners-lee.html

Scientific American article on the Semantic Web.