Tutorials for Web Developers - XML

XHTML: What you need to know
Marc Plotz
With everyone connecting in different ways your coding practices could be causing heartache for your users. We'll help you tackle this issue by showing what XHTML is and how it can help you reach your maximum audience.

Early Adopter VoiceXML
Wrox Press

Part 1

This book is for those professional developers who wish to add a new language to their toolkit, and want to be in a position to take advantage of the imminent explosion in voice-enabled applications. This first installment of Chapter 7 covers VoiceXML with XSLT (HTML and WML) and system architecture.

Part 2

This second installment of Chapter 7 looks at creating a markup language. This book is for those professional developers who wish to add a new language to their toolkit, and want to be in a position to take advantage of the imminent explosion in voice- enabled applications.

Part 3

This third and final installment of Chapter 7 examines the VoiceXML Stylesheet. This book is for those professional developers who wish to add a new language to their toolkit, and want to be in a position to take advantage of the imminent explosion in voice- enabled applications.

XSLT Quickly
Manning Publishing

Part 1

XSLT Quickly is, quite obviously, for anyone who needs to learn XSLT quickly. This first installment covers XSLT and alternatives.

Part 2

This second installment looks at a simple XSLT stylesheet, template rules, and running an XSLT processor. XSLT Quickly is, quite obviously, for anyone who needs to learn XSLT quickly.

Part 3

This third and final installment of XSLT Quickly exams element and attribute manipulation, attribute value templates, and ends with a summary of the tutorial.

SOAP, the Simple Object Access Protocol
Charlie Morris

SOAP is an XML-based protocol that lets you activate an application, or even an individual object or method within an application, across the Internet. SOAP could revolutionize the whole process of developing Web applications.

Beginning XHTML - Book Excerpt
Wrox Press

Chapter 13 of Beginning XHTML, from Wrox Press covers different media types and why they are necessary. Main subjects include the role of Cascading Style Sheets in supporting media types, the differences between media types and how to handle them and the future of style sheets in XML.

Introduction to Directory Services Markup Language (DSML)
Michael Hurwicz

Directory Services Markup Language, an XML schema designed to access directories within XML programs, using familiar XML syntax and tools, without having to use LDAP or proprietary directory-access APIs. If you need a consistent way to work with multiple, dissimilar directories, you owe it to yourself to check DSML out.

Introduction to XHTML, with eXamples
Alan Richmond

Update: XHTML 1.0 was released on January 26th as a Recommendation by the W3C. XHTML 1.0 is the first step toward a modular and extensible web based on XML (Extensible Markup Language). It provides the bridge for web designers to enter the web of the future, while still being able to maintain compatibility with today's HTML 4 browsers.

Structuring Data for the Web: An Introduction
Ken Sall

This XML introduction is geared toward newcomers who have heard the buzz, but don't know what all the fuss is about.

Doing It With SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), Part 1
Ken Sall

SVG is positioned to have a major impact on Web graphics because it enables resolution independent graphic rendering either from static text files or when generated from databases, and because it leverages many of the useful features of the XML family of specifications.

Part 1

In this XML tutorial, Ken Sall turns to some of the practical considerations facing Web developers of every level.

Part 2

Focuses on several inexpensive tools for editing XML: XML Pro, XML Spy, Xeena, and XML EditorMaker. How to use CSS (cascading Style Sheets) or XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language) to control both the presentation and processing of your XML (especially in IE 5) is also covered. A more complete WDVL treatment of XSL will follow later this summer and fall when the XSL Working Draft becomes a full W3C Recommendation.