]> &knowledgebase.person-organisation; &knowledgebase.semanticweb; &knowledgebase.software; &knowledgebase.linking; &knowledgebase.quotes; &knowledgebase.java; &knowledgebase.style; Canonical XML Version 1.0 John Boyer (ed.) "... if two documents have the same canonical form, then the two documents are logically equivalent within the given application context." Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 Tim Bray (ed.) Jean Paoli (ed.) C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (ed.) Eve Maler (ed.) The XML 1.0 Specification, 2nd edition. Tim Bray The Annotated XML Specification Bob DuCharme XML: The Annotated Specifications Buch vom 16. November 1998 (ISBN 0-13-082676-6). Erläutert die XML Spezifikation, weist die selbe Kapitel-Gliederung auf. Kapitel 2, "Documents" ist online als PDF verfügbar und macht einen sehr guten Eindruck. Common XML SML-DEV Common XML begins with a frequently used and thoroughly reliable subset of the features provided by the XML 1.0 and Namespaces in XML W3C Recommendations. [..] This specification includes descriptions of the impact of features beyond the core on interoperability. XML Namespaces FAQ Ronald Bourret Extensive XML Namespace FAQ. Namespace Myths Exploded Ronald Bourret The XML namespaces recommendation is tantalizingly vague about, or omits altogether, a number of apparently important points. ... This article discusses a number of myths that have arisen around XML namespaces, examining possible sources, clarifying what the recommendation says about them, and pointing out ways to resolve the issues they raise. Bray, Tim (ed.) Hollander, Dave (ed.) Layman, Andrew (ed.) Namespaces in XML Namespaces in XML - Best Practices, Risky Business Simon St.Laurent Fabio Arciniegas A. An Introduction to Groves Despite valiant efforts from certain quarters of the XML world to promote the idea of groves, they are still perceived in the mainstream as being a complicated, obscure concept. This article tries to clear up some of the mystery surrounding groves by providing a clear exposition of their underlying concepts. Addressing the Enterprise: Why the Web needs Groves Paul Prescod Uniform Resource Identifiers: Comprehensive Standard Leslie L. Daigle The pieces of the specification of Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs), and subsets thereof, span several documents which have evolved independently over time. This memo provides the definitive overview of the (currently) relevant documentation. As such, it acts as a definition of the core standard for URIs, incorporating existing standards documents by reference. MIME types IANA assigned MIME Types. XML Media Types (RFC 3023) M. Murata S. St.Laurent D. Kohn Standardizes five new media types. Unicode Learn the text-encoding standard for software, databases, and the Web. The Pros and Cons of XML Ronald Schmelzer A lot has been written, said, and discussed about the Extensible Markup Language (XML). As a result, there is a lot of confusion and chaos regarding exactly what XML means. Is it a language, document, modeling tool, e-Business application, or none of the above? What exactly does XML have to offer? Why does it matter? Furthermore, what does XML bring to the table that other languages, documents, tools, and applications have not been able to do in myriad other ways? Cross-Browser XML Simon St.Laurent xmlTree Wavefront Ltd. This site is a directory of XML Content on the Web: "Each resource listed in xmlTree includes the URL of the XML content, any schema or DTD that the content conforms to, and contact details of the publisher." A Tutorial Introduction to SGML Architectures W. Eliot Kimber, ISOGEN International Corp. Provides a brief, tutorial introduction to SGML architectures. Zvon.org zvon.org "We are working on covering to cover different aspects of XML, ranging from the basic introductions to the programming references and advanced tutorials." -- A great site! OMG CORBA und XML Resource Page John Cowan John Cowan's XML Index Präsentation zu XML und RDF; weiters Sammlung praktische Dinge wie Latin-1 Entities, XML Notations für MIME Typen, SAX Filter. Ron Bourret Ron Bourret I am a freelance programmer, writer, and XML researcher, specializing in databases and schemas. I have written a number of papers about XML and maintain a (reasonably) up-to-date list of XML database products. Frank Boumphrey XML Tutorials - XML Texts and resources The XML FAQ XML Special Interest Group document contains the most frequently-asked questions (with answers) about XML, the Extensible Markup Language. It is intended as a first resource for users, developers, and the interested reader, and should not be regarded as a part of the XML Specification. XML Europe 2000 Papers der XML Europe 2000 Konferenz (12. - 16. Juni 2000). XML for Software Engineering (XML4SE) The XML4SE website concern the application of new XML technology to Software Engineering domain. Its goal is to inform on academic and professional projects that are developed in this topic. SGML and XML News The XML Cover Pages Robin Cover xmlhack: developer news from the XML community Useful Information Company Welcome to xmlhack, a news site for XML developers. Our aim is to distill the essential news, opinions, tips and issues concerning XML development from the growing number of high-quality online information sources. Cafe con Leche XML News, and Resources Eliotte H. Rusty XML Deviant XML-DEV weekly eclectic - the XML-DEV weblog XML-DEV daily Chris Bayes' XML/XSL Portal Chris Bayes An XML site providing lots of information on XML in XML. XML at Sun Sun developerWorks: XML ZDNet developer: XML ZDNet XML Files GCA's XML Files On-line Newsletter Arbortext: Think Tank Norman Walsh This is where you'll find the experts -- pioneers like Dr. Paul Grosso and Norman Walsh -- who've been busy turning XML technology into an e-Content reality. More accurately, it's where they pause to rest and share their knowledge, between World Wide Web Consortium Workgroups, lectures, consultations and brainstorming sessions. Simonstl.com - Books and essays by Simon St.Laurent Simon St.Laurent This site hosts information on the books and other projects I'm working on. Most of it focuses on XML, but my work in general networking and Web development is also featured here. It's a personal site, as I work as an author and consultant now, and not for any particular company. WDVL: XML Web Developer XML at the Web Developer site. XML-DEV Archiv SGML/XML Discussion Groups and Mailing Lists The XML Cover Pages/ Robin Cover Deutschsprachige XML Liste hosted by GMD.de Archiv und (un-)subscribe. Designing Schemas for B2B E-Commerce Leigh Dodds As use of XML schemas grows, the potential for reuse expands. Alongside the Common Business Library (xCBL) Gregory highlighted several other efforts worthy of a closer look. BizTalk provides a great repository of schemas, and RosettaNet is an excellent source of information on process and data set analysis. However Gregory singled out ebXML as the activity most likely to yield successful results and close the gap between the XML and EDI communities. XML Patterns A site about designing good XML structure with patterns. XMLSchema.com extensibility Inc. The XML Schema Site James Tauber dtd.com - The largest repository of DTDs on the net Lumeria Inc. BizTalk Microsoft "... the BizTalk Framework, a set of guidelines for how to publish schemas in XML and how to use XML messages to easily integrate software programs together in order to build rich new solutions." ebXML - Creating A Single Global Electronic Market UN/CEFACT, OASIS ebXML Mission: To provide an open XML-based infrastructure enabling the global use of electronic business information in an interoperable, secure and consistent manner by all parties. About ebXML: The United Nations body for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT) and the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) have joined forces to initiate a worldwide project to standardize XML business specifications. eCo Framework CommerceNet "The primary focus of CommerceNet's eCo Framework Project is to demonstrate the value of the integration of three common component-based electronic commerce services. These services are semantic integration of multiple database types with multiple data constructs and data libraries; trusted open registries; and agent-mediated buying." The XML Schema FAQ Anonymous Extensive and very useful XML Schema FAQ. The W3C XML Schema Specification in Context Rick Jelliffe This article compares the W3C XML Schema Definition Language with XML document instances and DTDs, SGML DTDs, Perl regular expressions, and alternative schema technologies such as RELAX and Schematron. Using XML Schemas Eric van der Vlist Tutorial about the W3C XML Schema Candidate Recommendation. XML Schema The home of XML Schema at the W3C. XML Schema: Validator for XML Schema Validator for the latest XML Schema Specification. XML Schema Tutorial XML Schema Tutorial (Updated July 4, 2000 to the latest spec. This tutorial contains a complete set of labs with answers. All examples in the examples folder have been validated against Henry Thompson's schema-validator, xsv. The basics of using XML Schema to define elements Ashvin Radiya Get started using XML Schema instead of DTDs for defining the structure of XML documents. XML Schemas: Best Practices The specifics of designing a schema are dependent upon the task at hand. The goal of this effort is to come up with a set of schema design guidelines that hold true irrespective of the specific task. XSBrowser xsbrowser.org The xsbrowser (XML Schema browser) aims at creating a human readable XML document model from a given DTD (REC-xml-19980210) or XML schema (REC-xmlschema-1-20010502) by means of an HTML browser. The user needn't understand the DTD or XML Schema syntax. RELAX "RELAX is away simpler than XML Schema Part 1; on the other hand, RELAX borrows built-in datatypes of XML Schema Part 2. Thus, migration from RELAX to XML Schema is easy." TREX - Tree Regular Expressions for XML James Clark A TREX pattern specifies a pattern for the structure and content of an XML document. A TREX pattern thus identifies a class of XML documents consisting of those documents that match the pattern. A TREX pattern is itself an XML document. Introducing the Schematron -- A fresh approach to XML validation and reporting Uche Ogbuji Judging from the ongoing developments and debates about XML document validation, it's evident the language is in flux. In this article, writer and consultant Uche Ogbuji gets a handle on some of these changes and introduces the Schematron, a new validation and reporting methodology and toolkit. Validating XML with Schematron Chimezie Ogbuji Schematron is an XML schema language, and it can be used to validate XML. Schematron Rick Jelliffe The Schematron is a simple and powerful Structural Schema Language. Rick Jelliffe describes it as a feather duster for the furthest corners of a room where the vacuum cleaner (DTD) cannot reach. Topologi Schematron Validator topologi.com A free Windows-based tool for validating XML documents using Schematron schemas. It also handles DTDs, W3C XML Schemas, and Schematron schemas embedded in W3C XML Schemas. Web Modeling Language (WebML) WebML.org Web Modeling Language (WebML) is a notation for specifying complex Web sites at the conceptual level. VoiceXML Forum IBM, AT&T, Motorola, Lucent Tech. Based on the World Wide Web Consortium's industry-standard Extensible Markup Language (XML), Version 1.0 of the VoiceXML specification provides a high-level programming interface to speech and telephony resources for application developers, service providers and equipment manufacturers. DocBook DocBook is a DTD (both SGML and XML versions are available) maintained by the DocBook Technical Committee of OASIS. It is particularly well suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software (though it is by no means limited to these applications). Directory Service Markup Language (DSML) With a DSML standard, any XML-based application will be able to leverage directory information expressed. DSML.org XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) IBM XMLNews XMLNews.org XMLNews is an exciting new set of specifications for exchanging news and information using open, Web-based standards. By making it easier to produce, receive, and archive any kind of information across different hardware, software and programming languages, XMLNews is good news for everyone in the news industry. Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) TEI Consortium The TEI is an international project to develop guidelines for the encoding of textual material in electronic form for research purposes. Simple Form Markup Languge (SFML) Sundararajan Extending XHTML Sean B. Palmer This document will try to explain: Why to bother extending XHTML; Why it is "technically" so hard to extend XHTML 1.0, and to some extent XHTML 1.1; How to actually extend it (with relative ease); And some other light hearted discussion(s), including The Future Of XHTML. Rated XHTML Peter-Paul Koch This article gives my view on the language the W3C has developed to succeed HTML: XHTML. Agree or disagree with me, at least you'll have something to think about and to help you decide. First I'll explain what XHTML is, then I'll give the four rules of writing correct XHTML and finally I'll add some words about why you should use XHTML. WAP Wireless Markup Language Specification (WML) Robin Cover Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is a result of continuous work to define an industry wide standard for developing applications over wireless communication networks. Resource Directory Description Language (RDDL) Jonathan Borden (ed.) Tim Bray (ed.) A Resource Directory provides a text description of some class of resources and of other resources related to that class. It also contains a directory of links to these related resources. On the use of HTTP as a Substrate for Other Protocols Recently there has been widespread interest in using Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP) as a substrate for other applications-level protocols. This document recommends technical particulars of such use, including use of default ports, URL schemes, and HTTP security mechanisms. Keith Moore, University of Tennessee Lightweight Protocols -- LWProtocols.org LWProtocols.org This site is intended as a clearinghouse for information about distributed computing architectures that are more structured than telnet command protocols or CGIs but less complex or heavy than CORBA or DCOM. WebDAV - A Uniform Interface for Authoring Edd Dumbill WebDAV is an open protocol, standardized through the IETF, which uses XML and HTTP 1.1 to provide an interoperable layer for distributed web authoring. Essentially, it provides a uniform layer over filesystems, data repositories, etc. that supports more or less filesystem-like semantics: collections (like directories), resources (like files), properties (resource metadata), and locking. XML Protocol Technology Reference Edd Dumbill This article gives an overview and essential information about the most important technologies and initiatives in the XML protocol area. XMethods XMethods A directory of publicly accessible SOAP services. They hope "... this site will help to catalyze the creation, deployment, and use of more services." Web Services Architect webservicearchitect.com Web Services Architect is a resource site dedicated entirely to Web Services, it aims to help build and expand upon the existing Web Services community. The site is updated weekly with new information in the form of articles." Web Service Conceptual Architecture (WSCA 1.0) IBM This paper describes the architecture for Web Services from the point of view of components, interactions and application development patterns.This architecture is the blueprint for an IBM instantiation of the Web Services approach.It is a framework for the building and deployment of Web Services applications. SOAP FAQ develop.com Web Services Articles about Web Services, WSDL (Web Service Description Language), SOAP etc. SOAP WebServices Resource Center James Snell The purpose of this site is to offer members of the SOAP development community a centralized location to share news, links and resources relating to SOAP and Webservice development on any platform capable of hosting XML application architectures. Weblog for SOAP Learn about, develop and deploy Web applications with SOAP 1.1 UserLand Software XML-RPC UserLand Software XML-RPC Homepage SoapRPC.com SoapRPC.com SoapRPC.com is a resource site for SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), .NET, UDDI and related protocols for building Web Services. We have listings of technical articles, protocol specification, software, tutorials, sample code and a lot more. Apache SOAP Apache Software Foundation Apache SOAP is an implementation of the SOAP submission to W3C. It is based on, and supersedes, the IBM SOAP4J implementation. UDDI.org UDDI Working Group Discover businesses worldwide that offer the exact products and services that you need. Register the products and services of your own business for others to discover. Or both. Technology and business champions are leading the development and deployment of an open, Internet-based Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) specification. An introduction to XQuery Howard Katz Howard Katz introduces the W3C's XQuery specification, currently winding its way toward Recommendation status after emerging from a long incubation period behind closed doors. The complex specification consists of six separate working drafts, with more to come. This article provides some background history, a road map into the documentation, and an overview of some of the technical issues involved in the specification. A sidebar takes a quick look at some key features of XQuery's surface syntax. Code samples demonstrate the difference between XQuery and XQueryX and show examples of the surface syntax. Comparative Analysis of the Most Representative XML Query Languages Angela Bonifati Part I: Description of XML-GL; Part II: Comparison among the MR XML Query Languages (Lorel, XML-QL, XML-GL, XSL, XQL, Quilt); Part III: More examples... (plus Yatl and XDuce); Part IV: Translators from XML-GL to Lorel, XQL and Quilt; Part V: Active Rules for XML W3C XML Query W3 The mission of the XML Query working group is to provide flexible query facilities to extract data from real and virtual documents on the Web, therefore finally providing the needed interaction between the web world and the database world. Ultimately, collections of XML files will be accessed like databases.