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XML Family of Specifications: A Practical Guide: CD Contents
July 1, 2002
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The CD-ROM that accompanies XML Family of Specifications: A Practical Guide
includes a dozen of the most popular XML tools, nearly all of the mature XML-related W3C specifications in PDF format, the book's code examples, all of the links from "For Further Exploration" sections, and much more.
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XML Family of Specifications: CD Contents
Software
The CD contains both commercial software and freeware, with evaluation copies
provided for the former. The CD-ROM has been prepared for use on all platforms.
However, much of the software is only useful on Windows, and some software requires
Java. See "Setting Up Your XML Environment" [on the CD] for details.
- XML Spy 4.3 by Altova (evaluation copy; Windows)
- TurboXML 2.3 by TIBCO Extensibility (evaluation copy; Windows and Linux x86 2.2 platforms)
- XMLTransform 1.1.0 by TIBCO Extensibility (evaluation copy; Windows and Linux x86 2.2 platforms)
- XEP Rendering Engine 2.72 by RenderX (evaluation copy; Microsoft JVM and Sun JVM versions)
- Xerces Java 1.4.3 and 1.4.4 from the Apache XML Project
- Xerces2 Java 2.0.1 from the Apache XML Project
- FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) 0.20.3 from the Apache XML Project
- Batik SVG Toolkit 1.1.1 from the Apache XML
- Xalan-Java 2.3.1 from the Apache XML Project
- Saxon and Instant Saxon 6.5, 6.5.1,and 7.0 from SourceForge
- HTML Tidy (Jan. 2002 and Aug. 2000 versions) from SourceForge
- XSV (XML Schema Validator) version XSV14 from the W3C and LTG
- XML Validator and Canonical XML Processor by ElCel Technology (HTML pages)
W3C Specifications in PDF Format
All of the W3C specifications (other than early Working Drafts) that relate to the
book's topics are presented in PDF format for convenient offline reading.
Links to the current versions of each spec are included although nearly all
of these documents are mature W3C Recommendations (designated as "REC" below).
Date of publication is shown in CCYYMMDD format.
- XML 1.0 [Second Edition]: REC: 20001006
- XML 1.0 [First Edition]: REC: 19980210
- Namespaces in XML: REC: 19990114
- XML Information Set: REC: 20011024
- Canonical XML Version 1.0: REC: 20010315
- XML Schema Part 0: Primer: REC: 20010502
- XML Schema Part 1: Structures: REC: 20010502
- XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes: REC: 20010502
- Document Object Model Level 2 Core: REC: 20001113
- Document Object Model Level 2 Views: REC: 20001113
- Document Object Model Level 2 Events: REC: 20001113
- Document Object Model Level 2 Style: REC: 20001113
- Document Object Model Level 2 Traversal and Range: REC: 20001113
- Document Object Model Level 2 HTML: WD: 20011210
- Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 (CSS2) Specification: REC: 20010502
- XSL Transformations (XSLT), Version 1.0: REC: 19991116
- XML Path Language (XPath), Version 1.0: REC: 19991116
- Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL), Version 1.0: REC: 20011015
- XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.0: REC: 20010627
- XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0: CR: 20020221
- XML Base: REC: 20010627
- XML Pointer Language (XPointer) Version 1.0: CR: 20010911
- HTML 4.01 Specification: REC: 19991224
- XHTML 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language: A Reformulation of HTML 4 in XML 1.0: REC: 20000126
- XHTML Basic: REC: 20001219
- Modularization of XHTML: REC: 20010410
- XHTML 1.1 - Module-based XHTML: REC: 20010531
- Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema: WD: 20010322
- XML Events: WD: 20011016
- Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax Specification: REC: 19990222
- Resource Description Framework (RDF) Schema Specification 1.0: CR: 20000327
- Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.0 Specification: REC: 20010904
Additional Features
In addition to software and PDF versions of specifications, this book contains
a wealth of other useful information.
- Code Examples - Over 100 examples of XML, DTDs, Namespaces, XML Schema, CSS2, XSLT, DOM2, SAX2, XLink, XPointer, XHTML and more.
- Setting Up Your XML Environment - This document explains how to install XML tools and batch files from the CD-ROM. By making a few changes to one file, xmlsetup.bat, you can customize the location of software to fit your needs.
- For Further Exploration - Nearly 900 links organized by chapter titles. You'll find hundreds of links to XML specifications, books, tutorials, articles, software, resources, reference guides, and more.
- XML Glossary - Provided by TIBCO Extensibility [used with permission].
- Practical Formatting Using XSLFO - G. Ken Holman's contributed chapter in HTML format with links to details.
- Big Picture of XML Family of Specifications - This is an imagemap version of the Big Picture diagram that appears on the inside front cover of the book. The imagemap connects you to each specification, or to a collection of information about each of the 60 topics in the diagram.
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