XML and SGML standards and useful links

The W3C organization maintains a large family of standards and recommendations for the XML and SGML families. Here are some of the more important ones.

General sites, introductions, and tutorials

• Oasis's XML Cover Pages provide orientation materials as well as news of the latest trends.
• w3.org's homepage is the central site for XML-related standards and resources.
• An annotated version of the XML specification
• To invent your own document types, see our document Constructing a Document Type Definition (DTD) for XML (Web version, PDF version)
• xmllint, a tool for validating an XML files against its DTD (Document Type Definitions).

XSLT: Transforming and rendering XML files

XSLT is a tool for converting among the various XML and SGML formats. XPath is a tool for describing portions of documents, and is used by XSLT.

• See the TCC's XSLT Reference for information about XSLT and XPath.
• See the standards for XSLT and XPath.
• Documentation for xsltproc, an implementation of XSL-T.

Using XML from programs: The Document Object Model (DOM)

• W3's DOM homepage.
• Documentation for the Python Document Object Model (DOM) modules.
• Document for the Python minidom module.

Last updated: 2002/10/31 01:12:23 UT
URL: http://www.nmt.edu/tcc/help/xml/standards.html