XML and Java: Developing Web Applications, Second Edition

B.1 XML

B.1.1 General

• The SGML/XML Web page by Robin Cover: http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/xml.html

  Comprehensive links to XML and SGML, including articles, books, XML data, and tools.

• Annotated XML Specification by Tim Bray: http://www.xml.com/axml/axml.html

• XML.com: http://www.xml.com

  This site has a rich mix of information for developers and beginners.

• XML.org: http://www.xml.org

  A portal site hosted by OASIS.

• xmlhack: http://www.xmlhack.com

  A news site for XML developers.

• xml-dev mailing list: http://www.xml.org/xml/xmldev.shtml

  Very active mailing list for discussing XML specifications. Participants include people in W3C Working Groups, tool developers, and so on.

• IBM developerWorks (XML zone): http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/

  This site has a lot of articles.

• Microsoft MSDN (XML page): http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml

  This site has a lot of articles.

• James Clark's Web page: http://www.jclark.com

  James Clark is the author of XP, a highly conformant XML parser in Java. His page contains a set of XML test cases for testing the conformance of XML parsers.

• ID Alliance: http://www.idealliance.org

  ID Alliance organizes many conferences and seminars on XML.

B.1.2 Software

There are a lot of downloadable tools.

• The following pages provide many software packages:

  - Apache XML project: http://xml.apache.org/

  - IBM alphaWorks: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/

  - IBM developerWorks open source projects: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/

  - XML Software.com: http://www.xmlsoftware.com

• XML parsers:

  - Java API for XML Processing (JAXP): http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxp/

  - Xerces Java 1: http://xml.apache.org/xerces-j/

  - Xerces Java 2: http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/

  - Crimson: http://xml.apache.org/crimson

• XPath and XSLT tools:

  - Xalan Java 2: http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/

  - Cocoon 1: http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/

  - Cocoon 2: http://xml.apache.org/cocoon2/

• Data binding tools:

  - Castor: http://castor.exolab.org

  - Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB): http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxb/

  - Relaxer: http://www.relaxer.org/

  - RelaxNGCC: http://homepage2.nifty.com/okajima/relaxngcc/index_en.htm

• Schema validation tools:

  - Jing: http://www.thaiopensource.com/relaxng/jing.html

  - Sun Multi-Schema XML Validator: http://www.sun.com/software/xml/developers/multischema/

  - VBRELAXNG: http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-Bay/4639/vbrelaxng/vbrelaxng.html

• Other software:

  - DTDinst: http://www.thaiopensource.com/dtdinst/

  - SmartDoc: http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~dp8t-asm/java/tools/SmartDoc/