The Annotated XML Spec (REC-xml-19980210 below)
Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0, REC-xml-19980210, W3C Recommendation 10-February-1998 (see also above)
XML Information Set (specification describing an abstract data set containing the information available from an XML document)

Specifications (and proposals) for XML Applications

Query
Don't know what the situations is, see: See XML Query Requirements and XML Query Data Model (W3C Working Draft). Older propositions are:

Xlink, Xpointer, Xinclude & Xpath
All these are mission critical for developping real hypertext. So far only XPath is a standard and. Xpath, Xpointer and Inclusions are quite well implemented in server-side engines like Cocoon.

XML Linking Language (XLink) W3C Candiate Recommendation (7/2000)
XML Pointer Language (XPointer) W3C Candiate Recommendation (7/2000)
XML Inclusions, a processing model and syntax for general purpose inclusion (working draft on 4/00)
XML Path Language (XPath) W3C Recommendation (9/99, used to identify nodes in a XML tree, e.g. within XSLT or Xptr)

Schemas
Right now, most schemas are written as DTDs. XML Schemas are written in XML and W3C working drafts are probably near completion (9/2000)

XML Schema Primer
There are 2 working drafts: http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/ (Structures) and http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/ (Datatypes)

Indexes for other specs

The EBNF Productions: Path, XSLT, XPointer, etc. etc.
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) See also: http://www.svgcentral.com/.
RDDL Resource Directory Description Language is an XHTML extension

2.4 FAQ's

The XML FAQ (Peter Flynn's is the best place to start browsing for XML)
Questions fréquemment posées sur XML (traduction de LA XML FAQ ci-dessus)
XML FAQ (a smaller thing from textuality)
20 questions on XML (Trisha Gorman's text is also a good general intro to XML)
XQL FAQ
XML Namespaces FAQ by R. Bourret

2.5 On-line Mags

2.6 NewsGroups and Mailing Lists

comp.text.xml
xml-doc (or technical writers, markup authors etc.)

2.7 General Tutorials

(most are somewhat technical)

See our own TIE slides (in French: XML, XSLT)
[XML] Markup and Core Concepts, on-line chapter of O'Reilly's Learning XML book by Erik T. Ray.
The XML Revolution by Moller and Schwartzbach, BRICS, Univ of Aarhus. Good slides aboutXML, Namespaces, XLink, XPointer, XPath, DSD, XSLT, and XML-QL,
XML expliqué aux débutants
The XML School. A set of XML tutorials (Microsoft centered)
A Technical Introduction to XML
INDEX: IBM's on-line XML courses
Introduction to XML For Web Developers by Selena Sol.
flixml.org, Home of the XML b-Movie guide. Includes a Tutorial on how to understand/ use the DTD. By John E. Simpson, author of the "Just XML Book", Prentice Hall.
When Should I Use Elements, and When Should I Use Attributes? A discussion page
Introduction to XHTML, with eXamples
Le langage XML par A. Petitjean. Bien! Plus qu'un tutoriel ce site donne l'essentiel (mais centré Micro$oft)
Chapters from the XML bible by E.R. Harold: XSL-FO, XSLT, Xlinks and Xpointers. Direct acess: Iblio. See also his collection of Slides (full-day tutorial).
Adopting XML: Tomorrow's Web (good intro an market overview / summer 99)
XML Kurs-Info (in German)
Xploring XML (Michael Classen, webreference.com)
XML DTD Tutorial
XML Tutorialsby Richard Lander
The XML Elements of Style by Steve Muench, author of Building Oracle XML Applications (O'Reilly)
A set of good tutorials slides XML/XSLT/Xpath and so forth. [PS format for the slides!]
XML meets semantics: The reality and Thinking XML #2: XML meets semantics by Uche Ogbuji, XML developer works article (not for beginners, also discusses standardization issues)
Take My Advice: Don't Learn XML a Michael Smith / O'Reilly Article. Good Docbook propaganda.

2.8 Other Tutorials (XML Schema, Xlink, etc.)

Webreference XML Schema Intro article (Michael Classen)
Xlinks A (revised) chapter from E.R. Harold's Bible.
XML Schema Part 0: W3C working draft, a non-normative document intended to provide an easily readable description of the XML Schema facilities
XML Schema Tutorial (download, by Roger L. Costello)
XML Linking: An introduction by Steven J. DeRose (very short)
XML Linking Language(XLink) (slides by Simon St.Laurent)
An Introduction to XML Linking by Eve Maler (realaudio talk)
XML and Databases good overview by Ronald Bourret See also XML Database Products
XML: Document and Information Management by Todd Freter, Sun.
Transforming XML into SVG by Doug Tidwell, IBM
Professional XML Databases. Chapter 2 from the Wrox Press.

2.9 Introductory Articles

The State of XML: Why Individuals Matter XML.com article by Edd Dumbill (2001)
XML and the Second-Generation Web by J.Bosak and T.Bray, Scientific American (1999)
XML: Structuring Data for the Web: An Introduction. See also: Next Generation HTML: The Big Picture .
XML in Mozilla
The Evolution of Web Documents: The Ascent of XML
HTML Unleashed: The Emergence of XML
XML, Java, and the future of the Web
X Marks the Spot
XML: The Least You Need To Know (Slides)
Beyond Html: Xml And Automated Web Processing
Simon St.Laurent's XML articles
Doing It With XML by Kean Sall (4/99). Doing it With XML, Part 2 discusses cheap tools (7/99).
There is more to XML than roll-your-own HTML Good overview on XML-related standards (Ogbuji in Linux World 3/99). Includes some good pointers
XML and the IT architect Overview article by J.Rich in SunWorld
de-hyping XML, some nice warnings about expections...
Java and XML 7/2000 Informationweek article

2.10 Other Articles

The evolution of the XML schema (Jan 99) Are DTDs soon outdated ?

XML @ TECFA

Documentation & Validation

XML for programmers

Software

DTD's, schemas, stylesheets, example XML etc.

XML Links

3. XML for programmers

3.1 Tutorials for programmers

Using DOM to Traverse XMLby Stephanie Fesler at ONJava.com (feb 8 01 using new features of Xerces)
SUNs XML/Java Tutorials: Working with XML: The Java API for Xml Parsing (JAXP) Tutorial Good serveral parts tutorial. Don't know (yet) how industry compatible (Xerces) they are :)
XML Tutorial for Programmers by Ralf I. Pfeiffer, IBM XML Technology Group. So far (8/99) 3 modules, half-printable PDF version (good!).
Objects, objects everywhere, Data binding from XML to Java applications by Brett McLaughlin, IBM/Lutris (this has 4 parts, search for them. Not tested yet)
Lowering the bar of the DOM API, A few easy steps to begin accessing XML data in Java (by B. Martin, IBM 4/2000), unprintable, PDF file missing
Processing XML with Java Slides with examples by E.R. Harold (good as all his stuff)
Programming XML in Java (2-part SAX tutorial by Mark Johnson, Javaworld)
Servlet Programming for Teams : How Java Programmers and HTML Designers Can Collaborate Using XML and More Servlet Programming for Teams. iPlanet dev articles by Benoît Marchal
XML Development in Java , It's All in the Beans By Maneesh Sahu, WebTechniques. More advanced tutorial, e.g. build a JTree (not tested yet)
An Introduction to XML for Java Programmers by Piroz Mahseni, XmlMag. Features read-in/write (not tested)
Tutorial: XML and scripting languages - Manipulating XML documents with Perl and other scripting languages
Développement XML en Java sous Linux de M. Casabiance. Article qui montre comment il a construit le site de O'Reilly/France
Code XML data islands in Web pages by Carol Jones (IBM) 23 dec 99. JSP and XSL.
XML and Java: The Perfect Pair: Part 1 by Ken Sall. 3 Part Tutorial (Why, XML and JAVA APIs, Tools). For an overview start from here.
XML and Java Tutorial by Nazmul Idris at http://developerlife.com/. More advanced tutorial, probably the first on the Web. Don't know if it's updated.
Building an XML Application (Doug Tidwell, IBM, 10/98).
Designing Distributed Applications (Chapter 5 about meta-data from a book you can buy / not read yet but looks good 6/99/DKS )
A Young Person's Guide to The Simple Object Access Protocol: SOAP Increases Interoperability Across Platforms and Languages This is Microsoft's Simple Object Access Protocol. I don't use MS, but it looks interesting :)
Weaving the Web of News and RSS Viewer Applet: Ready to Rumble (RSS, RSS Viewer Code, etc. at webreference)
XML Structures for Existing Databases Eleven rules for moving a relational database to XMLby Kevin Williams, at XML library @ IBM
Servlets and XML: Made for each other by Doug Tidwell, IMB XML Library.

3.2 Java APIs

SAX: The Simple API for XML. Seems to be the most popular API, many implementations including XP (below), IBMs XML for Java, SUNs' XML library.
API Doc INSTALLED at Tecfa: local documentation
http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-DOM-Level-1-19981001/ DOM Level 1 Spec (W3C Recommendation), DOM Level 1 exists as Draft
Java API for XML Parsing defines a set of implementation independent portable APIs supporting XML Processing.

3.3 Libraries for programmers (parsers, etc.)

... and some tools written with these libraries. [TECFA People: Also look at our Java page, documentation for classes]

Java XML Parsers

The Apache XML Project. In particular Xerces (XML Parser), Xalan (XSLT engine), FOP (XSL-FO->PDF engine) and Cocoon (publication framework)
Java Project X (SUN's XML library).
XML Products from IBM: XML editing, parsing, programming tools. Overally good quality.
XP - an XML Parser in Java by James Clark. Also very popular.
Sun's XML page (API and parsers changes names and places a lot). According to various source on the Internet SUN is behind in the XML area (e.g. compared to Apache Xerces which implements Beta version of SAX and DOM level 2 (4/2000)
SAXON The SAXON package is a collection of tools for processing XML documents, e.g. an XSL (XSLT and XPath).
INSTALLED at Tecfa: local documentation. Has additional features that others (Xalan) have not.
Silfide's SXP, un parser et une API XML complète en Java (English Documentation available). Part of Silfide (a client/server based environment for distributing language ressources, including XML parser, XQL, Java Server, ..). Interesting stuff, but not tested (yet).
Aelfred is "a small, fast, DTD-aware Java-based XML parser, especially suitable for use in Java applets. We've designed AElfred for Java programmers who want to add XML support to their applets and applications without doubling their size: AElfred consists of only two core class files, with a total size of about 26K, and requires very little memory to run. INSTALLED at TECFA: Local Documentation (maybe old)
JDOM - The Java Document Object Model. This is a new initative (trying to replace DOM and make it simpler (4/00). Not tested.
NanoXML A free very small (5KB) non-validating XML parser for Java. SAX-like ?

XML parsers for other languages

(really not complete!)

Php has a XML stream parser built-in (there is also a mailing list
XML & Perl at www.perl.com, work in progress (XML/Perl spec for Q3 98). See rather XML and Perl, news at Oasis.
Python XML SIG
Xparse XML parser written in JavaScript (DOM support will be added).
JaSmIn tiny MinXML parser written in Javascript.
xml for <SCRIPT>A non-validating XML Parser for JavaScript
ESPX/TinyXSL ECMAScript Parser for (almost) XML + XML transform in-Script mini-Language

Various stuff

JSX, Java Serialization to XML (JSX) is a two-way bridge between XML and Java.
Steve's XML Testbed Home Page Java-based, The XML Testbed provides means to edit and then parse an XML source. Source is here.
Microsoft XML Parser (includes a plateform independent version, not tested here)
Docuverse DOM SDK is an implementation of W3C Document Object Model (DOM) API in Java. (was called SAXDOM, then FREEDOM)
Python DOM (not tested)
XRS: XML Retrieval System by Dongwook Shin (not tested yet, but looks interesting)
XML-DBMS, Version 1.0 Java Packages for Transferring Data between XML Documents and Relational Databases
Alphaworks XLE Lightweight Extractor (XLE) extracts data from the database
Link, an XML-XSL-XLL browser
XSLlib XSLLib repository, under construction 3/00
Lisp Server Pages ( XLSP is a lisp based dynamic XML management facility )

Minimal XML Parsers

Min Minimal XML Parser de Docuvers (écrit en Java)
Minimal XML Parser in Javascript (20 lines of code !), implements Minimal XML

XML @ TECFA

Documentation & Validation

XML for programmers

Software

DTD's, schemas, stylesheets, example XML etc.

XML Links

4. Software

See also general XML Indexes, this will not be complete! This list are just bookmarks for things we consider using

4.1 Indexes for tools / software

INDEX: XMLSOFTWARE.COM. Good index
INDEX: Free XML Software, another good index.
INDEX: The Whirlwind Guide to SGML & XML Tools and Vendors
INDEX: XML Software Guide (at www.stars.com)
XML Database Products

4.2 Browsers and plugins (client-side XML)

Microsoft Internet Explorer (On Jan/99: for Solaris, HP Unix and Win) IF (and only if) you REALLY must do client-side XML.
Mozilla implements CSS2 (client-side XML with CSS). The Mozilla is at http://www.mozilla.org/.
Opera (the only real Windows browser) has similar functionality as Mozilla does. But you have to pay a bit for small size and good performance ($18 for education).
Netscape Communicator plugin from inlogix (Windows only). Beta and trialware (not tested)
VSMS JAVA-XML, The JUMBO browser, JUMBO was the first publicly available XML browser and is written completely in JAVA. Used as an applet it requires no installation as it runs automagically under Netscape or MSIE browsers. Alternatively it can be used as a standalone application. Jumbo 2a2 has been released in Sept 98 and is available from http://www.xml-cml.org/jumbo/. Installed at Tecfa ('jumbo2' in java applications). Limited functionality.
See the announce for DocZilla (alpha versions available for testing on Win95/NT and Linux (5/99))
Fujitsu SGML/XML browser (for Win/NT, not tested here). Supports older versions of Xlink/XPointer.

4.3 On-line Tools

DTD Generator (works with file upload)
XML Schema Validator, XML Output version. The program used is xsv by H. Thomson and R.Tobin, Univ. of Edinburgh
For XML/DTD on-line validators, please consult major XML sites....

4.4 Editors, editor libraries, and other tools

All free or cheap GUI tools I tested are either slow, difficult to learn, useless (no DTD support/validation) or they crash sometimes. Some combine those features. The only good solution right now (3/2000) for programmers is (X)Emacs (see below) unless you have a Mac (Emile). To to some extent, XED can be recommended. For non computer literate people there is XML Writer and to some extent XMetal (probably the most popular more expensive commercial thing right now). See the XML software indexes for a lot of pointers and let me know if I am wrong :)

Text Editors with a GUI

I believe that XML Editors for content should work like text editors... So far, I haven't seen that much. Adobe would have the skills to do a nice tool based on FrameMaker (the only real Text Processor I am aware of) but do they hate XML ?

FrameMaker + SGML See my documentation on Frame + XML. Very good SGML product, but not very XML friendly and quite expensive.
Abortext, one of the real XML players has real tools (e.g. Epic) that get decent reviews (but I did not test any). Price: over $1000
Hypervision sells WorX SE, a plugin for MS Word (evaluation copy available, not tested)
XML-it, an Word add-on
LeanEdit Free (GPL) Beta, needs some installation work (On 10/3/2000 I got it to work, but it ran into tracebacks, and I wasn't able to understand how to switch between paras and lists in article mode... wait and see :)
XMetal. Since version 2.0 it has become probably the best overall pure XML editor for writing contents. (11/2000), $500
epcEdit a promising new SGML/XML editor for Win, Linux, Solaris. BEST cheap XML editor I think

Tree/Text/Structure Editors with a GUI

(this section also include other tools ... to be placed elsewhere)

Emile Good XML (DTD aware) emacs-like structure editor. Mac only ($80)
XML Spy Works much better than older versions, if you use this make sure you upgraded lately.
XML Writer Commercial Product with trial period, DTD aware, works. ONLY tool that is all of useful, cheap and beginner friendly I have seen so far.
Xpose Free Beta, untested (yet). Looks good. Win95/NT (Solaris/Mac under preparation 1/99).
CLIP XML Editor. (Now) commercial product, demo version available, untested, (Win95 only ??)
XED: An XML document instance editor by Henry S. Thompson, University of Edinburgh (Last installed update 28/9/1998). FREE, available for Solaris and Win95. A simple XML editor for wellformed documents. Reads/uses a DTD somewhat (lists all tags). HINT: to get a hint from the DTD start typing. e.g. "<". Has Emacs or Win keybindings. Good for people who dont want to install Emacs.
INSTALLED at TECFA, type 'xed' in a Unix Window.
Merlot Java based DTD aware XML structure/tree editor. Includes an interface to an XSL processor. Apache-style licence. Beta available. Works ok enough for a free tool. Hint to save a file: exit the program. since 5/2000
Microsoft XML Notepad (The link is broken, and I certainly WILL NOT go and serach thru MS site every few weeks). This tool doesn't do any validation anyhow.
EXml An other DTD unaware free editor for Win (not tested, doesn't look useful)
XeenaXeena, a visual XML editor, is a generic Java application from the IBM Haifa Research Laboratory for editing valid XML documents derived from any valid DTD. Can be customized
eXcelon Stylus Commercial XSL Editor (not tested)

Emacs modes

DTD supported editing (and validatation with an external program) we use is based on the PSGML mode. It's a powertul context sensitive tool, look at the Manual. Als,o Bob DuCharme has a good page with PSGML tricks. Markus Hoenicka's SGML for NTpage may also be of good help (dig a bit)..

A patched PSGML mode with XML support is included in Xemacs 21.0 (used @ TECFa and by myself, works great on Unix and Win95/98/NT)
XAEXML Authoring Environment for Emacs (psgml, Docbook DTD + stylesheets, Saxon XSLT, User Guides from Paul Kinnucan (the same person who did the Java emacs/IDE)
For NT Emacs take psgml. Works fine, but it's simpler to just install a recent Xemacs
Not tested: sxml-mode for (X)Emacs

Other modes/stuff:

xslide -- Emacs Major Mode for XSL Stylesheets for NT emacs from MulberryTech, still version 0.1 (5/99). Does not work with any Unix emacs (gnu or xemacs) I have (because of old font lock stuff)
tdtd, a emacs major mode for editing SGML and XML DTDs, any emacs ? (tested on latest xemacs)

Various Tools and Filters

SP James Clark SGML System. At TECFA it's installed including documentation This package's nsgml program is called from our Xemacs/sgml mode for example.
FOP: A Formatting Object to PDF Translator (XSL), alpha but getting there
Sgrep (structured grep) is a tool for searching text files and filtering text streams using structural criteria.
Koala XSL engine and XslSlideMaker XSL processorwritten in Java, using the Simple API for XML ( SAX 1.0) and the Document Object Model ( DOM 1.0) API.
INSTALLED at Tecfa/UNIX: Type xsl or xslSlide in a shell window and look at the page above. See also: Public SGML Software, e.g. a LinuxDoc DTD to Latex converter.
MetaMorphosis 3.0 - the SGML Power Toolkit SGML/XML documents can be transformed into any other desired format, information can be extracted and recombined and documents can be checked for soundness of structure and content. There is a free Linux version and a time-limited Win demo version (no Solaris ??)
XML AuthorityXML Authority is a graphical design tool accelerating the creation and enhancing the management of schemas for XML
XML Research at GMD, e.g. an XQL implementation
XML Query Engine "XML Query Engine is a JavaBean component that lets you search your XML documents for element, attribute, and full-text content. It can index multiple documents using a SAX parser of your choice. The index, once built, can be queried using XQL, a de facto standard for searching XML that is, very nearly, a proper subset of XPath" . The engine is free for individual users to use on their own machines.
XML AuthorityXML/DTD Tool (quite complete) and free beta versions (5/99). Ok but not very easy to use
XSet A High Performance XML Search Engine (not tested at Tecfa, claims to be fast)
DTDParse DTDparse reads an SGML or XML DTD and constructs an XML database of its content. This database can be examined to construct other views of the DTD. In particular, HTML or DocBook RefEntry documentation for the DTD. (Tested and used at Tecfa) (locally installed in /local/filters/dtdparse). See the short local doc.
perlSGML perlSGML is a collection of Perl programs and libraries for processing SGML DTDs and documents.
Xtract: a `grep'-like tool for XML documents Installed at Tecfa, works fine.
Passive Tex LaTeX reading XSL Formatting Objects and processing them to produce nice pages (not tested yet at Tecfa)
XML 2 anything (just untested bookmarks right now, so far I just found SGML stuff): http://hpux.ee.ualberta.ca/hppd/hpux/Text/sgml2latex-1.3/ * http://www.sgmltools.org/ *
M.J. Brown's Fancy XML Viewer (needs an XSLT processor)
XML Text Analysis Tools (online demo so far, from Colgate Univ. 4/00)
PRAX, a PhP implementation of RAX (Affords a database recordset-like view of an XML document in documents which lend themselves to such interpretation), not tested
An XML to HTML Verbatim Formatter with Syntax Highlighting ("just" a XSL stylesheet)
Xlink2HTML XLink2HTML is a set of XSLT stylesheets for the creation of HTML representations of Xlink elements. (not tested)
DTDParser in Java by Mark Wutka (not tested)
Quicka tool that enables easy integration of XML documents into Java classes (by Bill La Forge).
expat binding for the LambdaMOO server ... hey time to go back and hack some moo :)
DocParse, a HTML to DocBook translation (commercial, but cheap, so far only for Linux). Not tested

4.5 XML Application / Publication Frameworks

SEE Portals @ TECFA Page

4.6 Server-side XML=>HTML

Note that for simple things, "manual" translation with something like PHP works fine. Else you need XSL which is not just a rendering language (like CSS) but also tree transformation language (e.g. you can map xml to html). Anyhow, check portal and document systems too ! E.g. we use Cocoon at Tecfa.

The Apache XML Project. In particular Xerces (XML Parser), Xalan (XSLT engine), FOP (XSL-FO->PDF engine) and Cocoon (publication framework) Note for Tecfa users: Under Unix you can use "fop xmlfile xslfile pdfoutput" or "xslide xml xsl xxx" (xalan) to do command line processing.
The Lotus XSL processor from AlphaWorks / IBM. Was sed at Tecfa. But see the Apache framework now (1/2000).
http://ceriumworks.com/: Available soon for a modest price they say.
PHP supports the non-validating ExPat Parser, see our little examples (Note: latest version of PHP also have a DOM parser)
XT, James' Clark implementation of XSL transformations. (needs a SAX parser like his XP).
DB2XML: A tool for transforming relational databases into XML documents As Servlet or standalone (based on IBM's XML and XSL parsers, not tested yet)
The Igor Project 00% pure Java library that can be used to transform DB records into XML. (not tested yet)
Caucho's Resin (Open Source, XSL-enhanced JSP - not tested yet)
DynaBase, DynaText, etc. Professional Publishing System supporting XML
The Data Administration Newsletter may have some articles of interest (metadata, knowledge management, etc.)
XMLScript (not tested) is an alternative to XSL (looks actually nicer). There are yet other XML scripting languages in XML format I believe.
XDBM is an XML Database Manager. That is, it is an embedded database that you can include in your own software (not tested at Tecfa)
X2X XML Link Engine. "allows linking between documents and information resources without needing to change the resources that are being linked" (not tested)
DBXML is a native XML database (JDK 1.3, LGPL licence)
4suite.org/ has "open source" XML processing tools and an XML data server (Python based, not tested 3/2001, but looks promising)
Natixdemo pre-version of an XML Database (don't know if there will be free versionsfor academics for example) 7/01

4.7 Converters and other tools

4.8 HTML in XML / HTML=>XML transition

You can clean up your HTML code with HTML Tidy (most platforms, C source code available).
(in french) L'article Automatisez la gestion de vos pages HTML... grâce à XML ! donne qq instructions pour HTML Tidy
XHTML™ 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup LanguageA Reformulation of HTML 4.0 in XML 1.0 W3C Recommendation 1/2000.
Docuverse HTML SDK

4.9 XUL

XUL is "Extensible User Interface Language" developped for the Mozilla project (but not limited to it).

XUL page on DMOZ. Good Index
XUL Tutorial by Neil Deakin. Good !
XUL Reference Manual
Fooling with XUL

XML @ TECFA

Documentation & Validation

XML for programmers

Software

DTD's, schemas, stylesheets, example XML etc.

XML Links

5. DTD's, schemas, stylesheets, example XML etc.

This is not complete, pointers relate to TECFA's interests, have tutorial value or are just there because I put them there :) ....

5.1 Indexes

THE INDEX: http://www.schema.net/ A sister site of http://www.xmlinfo.com/
The other INDEX:
WDVL's XML Specifications, Proposals and Vocabularies
XML Catalog at xml.org
See also: XML Schema and Soap ressources
See also: our RDF pointers

5.2 Text

The Future of Internet Publishing by Norbert H. Mikula
XML-basierte elektronische Publikationen in Universitätsbibliotheken - eine Frage von Dokumenttypdefinitionen? Good article on electronic publications
Workshop "DTDs and the usage of new XML-technologies for electronic theses and dissertations" DTD-Material Documents and DTDs presented in a workshop, Berlin 2000. Very interesting to people into academic texts !

TEI - Text Encoding Initiative

Used mainly by scholars in literature research

TEI home at Oxford (TEI lite, including tools
Official TIE Home Page
Text Encoding for Interchange: a new Consortium (good overview article)
Editing TEI documents using Framemaker+SGML (year ???)

DocBook

The industry standard for technical books

DocBook (XML Version). Docbook is one of the most popular DTD's for writing books and papers (designed for informatics but used by other authors). There also is a simple version and a slidesdoctpye made by N.Walsh (fully compatible)
See e.g. XML Matters article by David Mertz for getting started with docbook.
DocBook: The Definitive Guide ON-LINE O'Reilly book, nice on paper too.

RefDB

DITA

Dita is used/co-developed by IBM. It's general architecture may be quite interesting for educational sites, because it accomodates for topic-oriented organization and also allows specialization.

Others

IBTWSH. John Cowans, Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Simple Hypertext DTD, subset of XHTML Basic
IEEE DTD (for writing documents, a simpler DTD than DocBook, works fine with FrameMaker/SGML

5.3 XML Contents and DTDs

Search Engines, Repositories

Indexing XML contents (or at least XML-something-based)

http://www.scoobs.com/ a "Context Based Search Engine", ... it indexes eXtensible Markup Language (XML).
http://www.goxml.com/ is an XML Context-based Search Processor.
XMLTree List of XML Content resources, serving XML (Yahoo like)
http://www.software.ibm.com/xml/
This page is NOT generated from XML :(

Various example stuff

XMLPatterns This site is an attempt to start to produce an XML Structural Pattern language.
Browse the local xml directory for now. Some (mirrored) stuff is password protected (generally the xxx2 directories).
For Java & XML stuff, there are a few things in /guides/java/staf2x/ex/xml
XML&CSS for Mozilla
See also local examples (TBD)

5.4 Other DTDs

(needs to be sorted out)

Topic Maps with its XML Topic Maps (XTM)
RuleML , a shared Rule Markup Language (RuleML), permitting both forward (bottom-up) and backward (top-down) rules in XML for deduction, rewriting, and further inferential-transformational tasks. (in progress)
Agent Markup Language (DAML) Program (home page, also for DAML-ONT and OIL). Language and tools to facilitate the concept of the semantic web
Virtual Hyperglossary (VHG)
Human Resource Management Markup Language (HRMML) from Structured Methods Inc.
QAML, a markup language for internet FAQs. in particular QUAML English Home Page
XBELThe XML Bookmark Exchange Language (XBEL) (A Python XML SIG project).
XSAXML Software Autoupdate
News Industry Text format, an XML DTD designed to allow news information to be transferred with markup and be easily transformed into an electronically publishable format. See also NewsML ( International Press Telecommunications Council)
The Information and Content Exchange (ICE) Protocol (W3C Note). See also http://www.icestandard.org/http://www.icestandard.org/
Ontology Markup Language and Conceptual Markup Language Hello AI again :)
iCalendar has an XML variant
flixml.org, Home of the XML b-Movie guide. Includes a Tutorial on how to understand/ use the DTD.
AIML Markup Language for Chatter Bots (also: The Alice Connection))
BiblioML An XML application for bibliographic records, based on the Unimarc Bibliographic Format (english/français). There is also MARC DTDs (MAchine Readable Cataloging Document Type Definition).
You can also look at TEI's work and NLM Standard Publisher Data Format, e.g. the PubMed DTD. Both are SGML but they can help.
Workflow etc: found proposals/specs at: SWAP Working Group * Workflow Management Coalition * PIF - XML Process Interchange Format
UIMLUser interface markup language. describing graphic user interfaces in a way that is independant of peripherals. see also: Mozilla's XPT

5.5 General articles about schemas

The Politics of Schemas: Part 1 and part 2by Kendall Grant Clark. Good reading !
OASIS Catalog files: Entity Management and Standard Deviations from Norm . For those who wonder about public Identifiers :)

5.6 XML in education

6. XML Links

6.1 Some major general indexes

Cafe con Leche XML News and Resources (Elliot Rusty Harold's site). Features daily XML NEWS !.
xmlhack.com Developer news
Extensible Markup Language (XML) at w3.org. The most official page :)
xmlinfo.com. Good and large index
Oasis SGML/XML Page. Good and large index from the major XML consortium. Has SGML&XML News or XMLIndustry News., etc. See also http://xml.org/
www.xml.com Seybold/O'Reilly's XML site. Worth a look to keep in touch and a place to start (Mag-like site with good tutorials)
Cetus links / XML
Webreference XML Page
XML site @ IBM from IBM
XML Library at ArborText
XML pages at MS
The Web Developer's Virtual Library XML Section. Includes introductory articles, ressources, glossaries, etc. A place to start
Spotlight on XML (CNET's page)
XML/XSL Resources
VB-XML (has also XML links of general interest)
XMLephantRecent new good index (complete on must subjects)
XML: Recommended Reading by Adam Rifkin and Rohit Khare. (outdated but good, 1/00)
about.com (XML Section)
Xanandu An ancestor of of lot of things :)
For SQL/Mysql, RDF, etc. click on the navigation bar on top
XML/EDI Group's Home Page (Edi means electronic data interchange)
Filemakers XML Page (some proprietry stuff)
xmlsuck.com /.-like XML news & discussion
xmlbastard.com
XML Schema and Soap ressources
xml.startkabel recent (2/01) XML portal
XML Developer Central (Netscape's site)

6.2 Indexes in french / en français

<XML>fr.org, nouveau site 3/2000. Portail complet et bien fait ! (y compris News)
XML Francophone
(pas un portail!) TechnoForum organise des rencontres

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