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The Extensible Markup Language is a general-purpose (or meta) language for creating other markup languages. XHTML is an example of one language defined in terms of XML. XML has no pre-defined elements of its own—just a simple, and strict, syntax. It is a simplification and enhancement of SGML (also a meta-language), from which HTML was formulated.

In addition to its use as a method of describing structured documents, XML is also designed for distributing data across a network such as the Internet. Popular languages already in use based on XML include RSS, RDF, SVG and MathML.

XML can also be used to transform documents from one format into another, such as converting data in a XML source file into XHTML using XSLT. This is similar in concept to how CSS is used to apply presentation styles to HTML documents.

Updated: Saturday, February 18th, 2006 @ 1:45 PM EST [10]

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• 1.Extensible Markup Language 1.0

  The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a subset of SGML that is completely described in this document. Its goal is to enable generic SGML to be served, received, and processed on the Web in the way that is now possible with HTML. [151]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://w3.org/TR/REC-xml/
  Author:
  XML Core Working Group
  [2]
  Reviewed:Friday, April 8th, 2005 @ 10:56 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Extensible Markup Language 1.0 sgmlw3cxhtmlxml
   

• 2.A Survey of XML Standards

  The world of XML is vast and growing, and it can be difficult for beginners to navigate the most important aspects of XML. This series of articles provides a guide to XML standards, including a wide range of recommended resources for further information. [1648]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-stand1.html
  Author:
  Uche Ogbuji
  [1]
  Reviewed:Saturday, February 18th, 2006 @ 1:45 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  A Survey of XML Standards standardsxml
   

• 3.Cafe con Leche

  From the author of the XML Bible, is this news and resource site for XML users, programmers, and of course Java enthusiasts. Actually, this is the sister site to Rusty's Cafe au Lait which caters to Java programmers. Tons of content here, a must bookmark. [1476]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://cafeconleche.org/
  Author:
  Elliotte Rusty Harold
  [3]
  Reviewed:Tuesday, August 9th, 2005 @ 11:08 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Cafe con Leche newsresourcesxml
   

• 4.XULPlanet

  XUL is an XML-based user interface language designed for building cross-platform rich Web applications, the Mozilla Firefox browser being one most people are familiar with. This reference site is packed full of tutorials, developer guides and user forums. [1402]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://xulplanet.com/
  Author:
  XULPlanet Team
  [1]
  Reviewed:Thursday, July 14th, 2005 @ 7:22 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  XULPlanet cssjavascriptmozillardfxblxmlxul
   

• 5.Exchanger XML Editor

  A fully functional free evaluation copy of this powerful Java-based, cross=platform XML editor is available for download. Version 3.1 now includes a "grid" view, which is akin to using a spreadsheet, and an XSLT debugger. The video library impressed me. [1392]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://exchangerxml.com/
  Author:
  Cladonia Limited
  [1]
  Reviewed:Monday, July 11th, 2005 @ 2:46 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Exchanger XML Editor debugeditorsxmlxpathxslt
   

• 6.XMLStarlet

  Shell prompt freaks unite! XMLStarlet is a command-line tool used to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents using a simple shell program, similar to the Unix grep, sed, awk, diff, patch, etc. tools for working with plain text files. [1345]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/
  Author:
  Mikhail Grushinskiy
  [1]
  Reviewed:Monday, June 27th, 2005 @ 9:14 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  XMLStarlet shellunixxml
   

• 7.Vim as XML Editor

  If you're a Vim freak like me, and you do any serious XML editing by hand, you might want to take a look at setting-up this custom environment. Not for the faint of heart. Emacs? We don't need no stinking Emacs! [1258]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://pinkjuice.com/howto/vimxml/
  Author:
  Tobias Reif
  [1]
  Reviewed:Wednesday, June 1st, 2005 @ 10:01 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Vim as XML Editor editorshowtovimxml
   

• 8.Expat

  Expat is an XML parser library written in C, and is in widespread use by a number of products that should be familiar. A few of these include the Mozilla project, Perl's XML::Parser, the Sabltron XSLT toolkit and the PHP XML parser functions. [1219]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat
  Author:
  James Clark
  [3]
  Reviewed:Saturday, May 21st, 2005 @ 8:44 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Expat cmozillaparsingperlphpxmlxslt
   

• 9.XMLSpy

  XMLSpy is a commercial XML IDE (integrated development environment) from Altova. Whoa! Did I say commercial? You can try it for free for 30 days, just download and install it. Why would this interest me? Debugging XSLT stylesheets, that's why. [1204]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://www.altova.com/products_ide.html
  Author:
  Altova
  [1]
  Reviewed:Thursday, May 19th, 2005 @ 1:15 AM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  XMLSpy debugidexmlxslt
   

• 10.XML Buzz

  Outstanding community/blogger site from Artima Developer. They also have categories for Design, Java, Linux, MacOS, Open Source, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby and a few others I won't mention. RSS feeds of new posts, impressive blogroll as well. [1202]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://www.artima.com/buzz/community.jsp?forum=145
  Author:
  Artima Developer
  [9]
  Reviewed:Thursday, May 19th, 2005 @ 12:04 AM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  XML Buzz blogfeedopen sourcerssxml
   

• 11.XML Tools

  XML and XML application language editors, parsers, databases, search engines, validators, topic maps, and many other tools. Also indexed by name, platform, vendor, and standard. Searchable, and includes updates as an RSS feed. Hmmm...sounds familiar. [1120]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://www.garshol.priv.no/download/xmltools/cat_ix.html
  Author:
  Lars Marius Garshol
  [1]
  Reviewed:Tuesday, May 10th, 2005 @ 3:43 AM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  XML Tools databaseparsingrsssearchvalidatorxml
   

• 12.XMLhack

  A Web site covering essential news, issues, opinions and programming advice from the XML developer community. This site is no longer in production, but there are a lot of useful articles in their archives. [235]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://xmlhack.com/
  Author:
  Useful Information Company
  [1]
  Reviewed:Tuesday, April 12th, 2005 @ 8:57 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  XMLhack xml
   

• 13.The Apache XML Project

  A collaborative software development project dedicated to providing robust, full-featured, commercial-quality, and freely available XML support on a wide variety of platforms. [168]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://xml.apache.org/
  Author:
  Project Management Committee
  [2]
  Reviewed:Saturday, April 9th, 2005 @ 4:08 AM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  The Apache XML Project apachexml
   

• 14.W3Schools: XML Tutorial

  In this XML tutorial you will learn what XML is and the difference between XML and HTML. You will also learn how to start using XML in your applications. [162]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://www.w3schools.com/xml/
  Author:
  Jan Egil Refsnes
  [5]
  Reviewed:Saturday, April 9th, 2005 @ 1:31 AM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  W3Schools: XML Tutorial htmlxml
   

• 15.The XML FAQ

  Frequently Asked Questions about the Extensible Markup Language (XML). With answers, of course. [155]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://www.ucc.ie/xml/
  Author:
  Peter Flynn
  [1]
  Reviewed:Friday, April 8th, 2005 @ 11:39 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  The XML FAQ faqxml
   

• 16.A Technical Introduction to XML

  This introduction to XML presents the Extensible Markup Language at a reasonably technical level for anyone interested in learning more about structured documents. [154]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://xml.com/pub/a/98/10/guide0.html
  Author:
  Norman Walsh
  [3]
  Reviewed:Friday, April 8th, 2005 @ 11:24 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  A Technical Introduction to XML xml
   

• 17.Building the Annotated XML Specification

  The design of XML 1.0 stretched over 20 months ending in February 1998, with input from a couple of hundred of the world's best experts in the area of markup, publishing, and Web design. [153]

  ★★★★★
  URI:http://xml.com/pub/a/98/09/exexegesis-0.html
  Author:
  Tim Bray
  [3]
  Reviewed:Friday, April 8th, 2005 @ 11:08 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Building the Annotated XML Specification specstandardsxml
   

• 18.W3C XML Home Page

  This page describes the work being done at W3C within the XML Activity, and how it is structured. Work at W3C takes place in Working Groups. [152]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://w3.org/XML/
  Author:
  XML Core Working Group
  [2]
  Reviewed:Friday, April 8th, 2005 @ 11:01 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  W3C XML Home Page w3cxml
   

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