1. XML For Dummies Book Author : Lucinda Dykes & Ed Tittle Slides Prepared By: Son TN Chapter 21: Ten Ultimate XML Resources

2. Contents XML’s Many and Marvelous Specs An XML Nonpareil Top XML Tutorial Sites XML in the Mail Excellent XML Examples at zvon.org XML News and Information XML Training Options Building a Bodacious XML Bookshelf Studying XML for Certification Serious Searches Lead to Success

3. 21.1 XML’s Many and Marvelous Specs For XML itself, and for standard XML applications, the place to start your search for descriptions, metadata, and other details is the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) site: www.w3c.org/XML/

4. 21.2 An XML Nonpareil The XML nonpareil (which is just a fancy-schmancy word for unparalleled) on the Web is Robin Cover’s XML Pages site. You will find pointers to relevant specifications and other related documents Seeing brief descriptions of the markup or application itself, as well as pointers to numerous other useful resources. www.oasis-open.org/cover/

5. 21.3 Top XML Tutorial Sites The following sites to be unusually useful when seeking sources for XML tutorials: www.zvon.org A crazy, quirky, but incredibly competent Czech XML collective, Zvon offers some of the best XML tutorials we’ve seen anywhere. www.xml.com An O’Reilly & Associates Web site devoted to covering XML news, applications, tools, and technologie www.w3schools.com/xml/ World Wide Web Schools has its own XML School, which you can enter here.

6. 21.4 XML in the Mail XML master and maven Robin Cover scores big with a massive collection of SGML- and XML-related mailing lists (70 in all). Visit his site to see what we mean; don’t overlook the annotated listings on each list: www.oasis-open.org/cover/lists.html

7. 21.5 Excellent XML Examples at zvon.org For a great collection of XML examples, please visit Zvon’s Example Respositoryat : www.zvon.org/HowTo/Output/index.html

8. 21.6 XML News and Information The following includes many resource online for XML News and Information www.xml.com www.xml-zone.com www.fawcette.com/xmlmag/ www.oasis-open.org/cover/sgmlnew.html www.ibiblio.org/xml/ comp.text.xml

9. 21.6 XML Training Options The following training companies, among many others, offer classroom training on XML : Global Knowledge: www.globalknowledge.com SkillBuilders: www.skillbuilders.com Zveno: www.zveno.com/courses Some courses to training via computer-based training or online : DigitalThink (www.digitalthink.com/dtfs/) SmartForce (www.smartforce.com/smb/) …

10. 21.7 Building a Bodacious XML Bookshelf A quick hop to Amazon.com or your favorite online bookstore and typing XML as a title element or keyword choice produces hundreds of hits . Here is our top-five list of XML books, any or all of which are well worth their purchase price : Elliotte Rusty Harold: XML: Extensible Markup Language, Wiley, Indianapolis, IN, 1998. Elliotte Rusty Harold: XML 1.1 Bible, Wiley, Indianapolis, IN, 2004. Elliotte Rusty Harold and W. Scott Means: XML In a Nutshell, 3rd Edition, O’Reilly & Associates, Sebastopol, CA, 2001. Steven Holzner: Inside XML, Pearson Education, Boston, MA, 2000. Erik T. Ray and Christopher R. Maden: Learning XML, 2nd Edition, O’Reilly & Associates, Sebastopol, CA, 2003.

11. 21.8 Studying XML for Certification Here’s a list of organizations that offer XML certification at present (at least, ones that we can find), with pointers to more information about their programs and credentials: IBM’s Certified Developer program includes an XML specialization Global Knowledge Learning Tree International U2test BrainBench www-1.ibm.com/certify/certs/xm_index.shtml www.globalknowledge.com/training/certification_listing.asp?PageID= 12&certid=215&country=United+States www.learningtree.com/us/cert/progs/7062.htm www.u2test.com/avtestn.asp www.brainbench.com/xml/bb/homepage.xml

12. 21.8 Serious Searches Lead to Success Few favorite search engine : Yahoo ASK JEEVES Google AltaVista Bing …