Course Materials (MV 4250)

• MV4250 Syllabus: Advanced XML Design and Authoring
• Student intranet project pages
• X3D-Edit Authoring Tool for Extensible 3D (X3D) Graphics describes design and construction of the XML-based X3D-Edit tool. Further details on X3D and internationalization (i18n) tooltips are in the X3D-Edit README.
• Constructing an XSLT Editor using Xeena is a guiding example on producing a customized user interface for new DTD-based tagsets
• Programming XML in Java course notes by John Putin, Rennsaeller Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
• Current course textbook. Hunter, David et al., Beginning XML, Wrox Press Ltd., Birmingham UK, 2000.
  • Code/content examples: available via http://www.wrox.com
  • Online .zip archive
  • Local .zip archive
  • Local source
• Quick Reference cards from Mulberry Technologies, Inc.
  • XML Syntax Quick Reference (letter size)
  • XSLT and XPath Quick Reference (legal size)
• The XML Revolution: Technologies for the future Web by Anders M�ller & Michael I. Schwartzbach
• Another course of interest: Introduction to XML by Leonard Daly
• OA/MV 3250 Introduction to Extensible Markup Language (XML) by Gordon Bradley (bradley@nps.navy.mil)

Examples

• United States Congress initiative on XML and Legislative Documents

Papers and Articles

• Norman Walsh, A Technical Introduction to XML. XML.com Copyright � 2000 O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
• Norman Walsh, What is XML? XML.com Copyright � 2000 O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
• Kendall Grant Clark, Three Myths of XML. XML.com Copyright � 2000 O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
• G. Ken Holman, What is XSLT?, August 16 2000. XML.com Copyright � 2000 O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
• Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila, The Semantic Web Scientific American, May 2001.
• Selected local printable copies

Resources

• W3C Track @ WWW2003, Budapest, Hungary
• DoD XML Registry at http://diides.ncr.disa.mil/xmlreg/user/index.cfm
• IBM Alphaworks site at http://alphaworks.ibm.com/xml
• O'Reilly XML.com site at http://www.xml.com
• Perfect XML site at http://www.PerfectXML.com
• TopXML site offers tutorials, code library and other references at http://www.topxml.com
• Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) is a standards-development organization focused primarily on ebusiness applications. at http://www.oasis-open.org
• XML Cover Pages site at http://www.oasis-open.org/cover
• XML Modeling site at http://XMLModeling.com
• XML Pitstop site at http://www.XMLPitstop.com
• XML/XSL Portal site at http://www.bayes.co.uk/xml
• XML Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) at http://www.ucc.ie/xml

Software

• XML Spy is our preferred XML editor. We are an academic partner and have an academic class license. White papers and technical resources Configuration: XML Spy -> Tools -> Options -> Select External XSL transformation program c:\xml\saxon\saxon.exe -o %2 %1 %3 (note order!)

• HTML-Kit is a free validating HTML editor
• Amaya, the W3C's Editor/Browser. Amaya includes multiple viewers for different ways of looking at documents.
• SAXON XSLT Processor
• HTML TIDY validator
• Xeena (~5MB) from IBM Alphaworks (with local copy of documentation)
• X3D-Edit is a graphics file editor for Extensible 3D (X3D)

Specifications and Recommendations

Chess Game Markup Language (ChessGML)

• ChessGML by Andreas Saremba
• Displaying chess games in Web pages using ChessGML and SVG
• Chess: Validating moves and commentary using XSLT

Chemistry Markup Language (/li>

Document Object Model (DOM) Technical Reports including approved and draft Recommendations

Java APIs for XML Processing (JAXP)

Working with XML: Java API for Xml Parsing (JAXP) Tutorial

X3D Scene Authoring Interface (SAI)

Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)

• W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
• Evaluation, Repair, and Transformation Tools for Web Content Accessibility

Internationalization (I18N) and Localization

• W3C's Internationalization Activity
• Weaving the Multilingual Web (or all-slides version) by Fran�ois Yergeau & Martin D�rst, 5th International Unicode Conference, 31 August 1999
• XML Internationalization FAQ
• Weaving the Multilingual Web: Standards and their Implementations by Martin J. Dürst, W3C/Keio University
• Internationalized Resource Identifiers: From Specification to Testing by Martin J. Dürst, W3C/Keio University
• XML and Unicode: Implications for Global Publishing by Jon Bosak, Sun Microsystems
• Savourel, Yves, XML Internationalization And Localization, 519 pages, Sams, ISBN: 0672320967. This title provides techniques and best practices for internationalizing XML documents. It presents specific information about applying internationally accepted standards for software development and data creation and storage to XML documents and applications.

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)

• W3C's SVG home page
• SVG 1.0 Proposed Recommendation
• Adobe's SVG Zone which includes SVG plugins, some cool examples and latest 3.0 beta
• Eurographics tutorial on SVG by Bob Hopgood and David Duce, Oxford-Brooks University, 4 September 2001
• Eurographics State-of-the-art report (STAR) on Web2D/SVG by Ivan Herman, Bob Hopgood and David Duce, Oxford-Brooks University, 4 September 2001. Also available: .pdf report (600 KB).
• A Quick Introduction to SVG by Phil Jackson of Wrox
• Scalable Vector Graphics: The What and the How by Jason Cranford Teague of Web Review
• SVG Slide Toolkit by Sun
• Celinea SVG raster image to SVG conversion
• WWW Symposium Logos by Bob Hopgood

Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML/HTML)

• W3C home page
• Dave Raggett introductory guides: Getting started with HTML, More advanced features, and Adding a touch of style
• HTML 4.01 Specification
• XHTML™ 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language

Extensible Markup Language (XML)

• W3C's XML home page
• XML in 10 points by Bert Bos
• Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 Specification
• Annotated XML Specification
• XML FAQ
• Robin Cover Pages
• A Gentle Introduction to XML by Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Consortium

XML Schema (.xsd)

• W3C's XML Schema home page
• XML Schema Part 0: Primer
• XML Schema Part 1: Structures
• XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes
• Validator for XML Schema by Henry Thompson of Schema Working Group
• XML Schema Quality Checker by Bob Schloss IBM

Extensible Stylesheet Language for Transformations (XSLT) and

• W3C's XSL home page
• XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0, W3C Working Draft 16 August 2002
• XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.0, W3C Recommendation 16 November 1999
• XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0, W3C Working Draft 16 August 2002
• XML Path Language (XPath) 1.0, W3C Recommendation 16 November 1999
• Saxon (with documentation) by Michael Kay is our preferred XSLT engine.
• XSL-List -- Open Forum on XSL
• XSL Frequently Asked Questions
• XML.com: Top Ten Tips to Using XPath and XPointer
• XSL Syntax Guide from XML-Computing
• Extensions to XSLT (EXSLT) community contributions
• XSLT Standard Library, a SourceForge project
• XT is an earlier implementation in Java of XSL Transformations.

Extensible 3D (X3D) Graphics

• Web3D's X3D home page
• X3D home page
• X3D-Edit
• Diagram: XML Tool Relationships for X3D

Web Services

• Web Services Architecture Working Group
• Architectural Principles of the World Wide Web (current draft)
• Roy Fielding, dissertation, Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm
• Web Services Architecture Requirements
• Web Services Glossary
• Web Services Architecture Usage Scenarios
• OASIS Web Services for Interactive Applications Technical Committee (TC)
• OASIS Web Services for Remote Portals (WSRP) TC
• WSDL Learning Guide

Student Presentations

• Extensible Markup Language (XML) Overview by Brent Christie
• Extensible Stylesheet Language for Transformations (XSLT) by Brent Christie
• Resource Description Framework (RDF) by Brent Christie
• Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the Federated Interoperability Object Model (FIOM) by Brent Christie
• Document Object Model (DOM) by Simon Goerger
• Event Graph Graphical Design Tool (EGGDT) by Angel San Jose, Spanish Navy
  • Powerpoint slides
  • Schema documentation
  • EGGDT.dtd
  • EGtoDES.xsl
  • prueba1.xml
  • pruebaEG01.xml

Author: Don Brutzman, brutzman@nps.navy.mil
Address: http://web.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman/xml/XmlReferences.html
Updated: July 26, 2003 (official disclaimer)