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<LI>          Extensible Hyper Linkage Version 1.0 Henry's Redraft
Partial: This version of the draft (of mainly historical interest) can be accessed
at http://www.sil.org/sgml/new-xml-link970211.html.
<LI>          XAPI-J: Standardized XML API in
Java: This is Datachannel's focus for discussion on the standard. You can reach it at
http://www.datachannel.com/channelworld/xml/dev/.
<LI>          SBN Specs &amp; Standards: XML
Parser: Microsoft's attempt to define a standard can be reached at
http://www.microsoft.com/sitebuilder/standards/xml/.
<LI>     XML-Style (draft): This very early draft is unfortunately only
in
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<P>PostScript format, but it is better than nothing. You can access it
at http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/sun-info/standards/dsssl/xs/xs970522.ps.zip.
</P>
<LI>          Document Object Model
(DOM): This is the definitive W3C source. It can be found at
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DOM/.
<LI>         DOM
Requirements: The W3C requirements document can be
reached at http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/DOM/drafts/requirements.html.
<LI>          Draft Specification on Channel Definition
Format: This is Microsoft's official standard proposal. You can reach it at
http://www.microsoft.com/standards/cdf.htm.
<LI>        Unwired Planet&#151;HDML Language
Specification: The official specification in HTML format can be reached at
http://www.uplanet.com/pub/hdml_w3c/hdml20-3.html.
<LI>       Mathematical Markup Language
(MathML): This definitive W3C source can be accessed at
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-math/.
<LI>         Meta Content Framework Using
XML: This is R.V. Guha and Tim Bray's proposal to the W3C and can be accessed at
http://www.textuality.com/sgml-erb/w3c-mcf.html.
<LI>        Open Financial Exchange
Specification: This is Microsoft's official specification. You can reach it at
http://www.microsoft.com/finserv/ofxdnld.htm.
<LI>         PICS-NG Metadata Model and Label
Syntax: This is the official working draft from the W3C working group. It can be seen at
http://207.201.154.232/murray/specs/WD-pics-ng-metadata-970514.html.
<LI>       Web Collections&#151;IBM
revision: The official document at the W3C site can be accessed only by members. This copy is open to the public
at http://www-ee.technion.ac.il/W3C/WebCollection.html.
<LI>         CD ...: SGML Applications&#151;Topic Navigation Maps, WG8
N1860: This is the draft of what might become the official ISO standard and
is still in a very early stage (even the number hasn't been settled
yet). You can reach it at
http://www.ornl.gov/sgml/wg8/document/1860.htm.
<LI>        Web Interface Definition Language
(WIDL): This is a very brief but informative description of WebMethod's XML application. You
can access it at
http://www.sil.org/sgml/xml.html#widl.
<LI>         HyTime Working Group FTP
Archive: This is the official working group's site for the interchange of files. You can get it at
ftp://
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<P>infosrv1.ctd.ornl.gov/pub/sgml/WG8/HyTime/TC/.
</P>
<LI>          HyTime: ISO 10744 Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring
Language: This is a public copy of the official standard. You can find it at
http://dmsl.cs.uml.edu/standards/hytime.html.
<LI>          ISO/IEC 10744 HyTime (Second
Edition): This is Eliot Kimber's (Dr. Macro) unofficial, but as good as definitive, copy of the latest
revision of the standard. You can reach it at
http://www.drmacro.com/hythtml/is10744r.html.
<LI>          Unicode Home
Page: This is the official unicode site and can be reached at
http://www.unicode.org/.
</UL>

<H4>
Information Sources
</H4>

<P>The following sites contain information of a general nature about SGML
and XML:
</P>

<UL>
<LI>          SGML and XML
Resources: This is a very useful set of links and pointers. You can access it at
http://www.arbortext.com/linksgml.html.
<LI>          What is
XML?: The GCA are the main organizers of SGML and
XML conferences around the world. This site has some useful pointers
and can be reached at
http://www.gca.org/conf/xml/xml_what.htm.
<LI>          Commonly Asked Questions about the Extensible Markup
Language: This is maintained on behalf of the W3C and is the definitive site for
a lot of those nagging questions that aren't answered by the
official documents. You can access it at
http://www.ucc.ie/xml/.
<LI>          XML (W3C
Site): This is more or less the focus for all XML
activity. You can reach it at
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/XML/.
<LI>          XML (Robin Cover's
Site): This SGML Web site is an Aladdin's cave of useful information and pointers to XML information. It can
be reached at http://www.sil.org/sgml/xml.html.
<LI>          XML: The Extensible Markup Language&#151;James K. Tauber's
Site: This very useful source of information can be accessed at
http://www.jtauber.com/xml/.
<LI>          XML Developers' Mailing
List: This is a public mailing list for extremely technical discussions about the development of XML and
XML software. The following site keeps hyperlinked archives of all
the
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<P>messages sent to the list:
http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/.
</P>
<LI>          Distributed Objects Mailing
List: This is a public mailing list for extremely technical discussions about the development of
distributed object software. This site keeps hyperlinked archives of all the
messages sent to the list. You can see it at http://www.infospheres.caltech.edu/
<LI>mailing_lists/dist-obj/.
</UL>

<H4>
Software Packages
</H4>

<P>The following software packages are packages that are known to support
XML now (most of this software is discussed in Chapter 16):
</P>

<UL>
<LI>          Chris Stevenson's Java
Applets: These Java Applets for processing XML can be reached at
http://www.users.on.net/zhcchz/java.html.
<LI>          Chrystal Software
Astoria: This is XML document management software. You can access it at
http://www.chrystal.com/xml.htm.
<LI>          Balise Home
Page: This is SGML and XML middleware. You can get it at
http://www.balise.berger-levrault.fr/.
<LI>          DSC: This DSSSL syntax checking software can be reached at
http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/dsc-blurb.html.
<LI>     DSSSLTK: This DSSSL toolkit is available at
http://www.copsol.com/products/index.html.
<LI>         GRIF
S.A.: The Symposia HTML/XML editor and browser can
be reached at http://www.grif.fr/.
<LI>          Jade: This is James Clark's DSSSL engine. You can get it at
http://www.jclark.com/jade.
<LI>          Scientific Information Components using
Java/XML: The Jumbo XML/CML viewer Java application can be accessed at
http://ala.vsms.nottingham.ac.uk/vsms/java/jumbo/index.html.
<LI>          Lark: Tim Bray's non-validating parser written in Java can be seen
at http://www.textuality.com/Lark/.
<LI>          LTG software: LT XML tools and developers'
API: This is the Language Technology Group's C++ and Java processing software
for XML. You can see it at
http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/software/xml/.
<LI>          MSXML: This is Microsoft's XML parser written in Java. You
can
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<P>access it at http://www.microsoft.com/standards/xml/xmlparse.htm.
</P>
<LI>     NXP: Norbert Mikula's XML parser is written in Java and can
be reached at
http://www.edu.uni-klu.ac.at/~nmikula/NXP.
<LI>          Tcl Support for
XML: This Tcl toolkit for processing XML documents can be accessed at
http://tcltk.anu.edu.au/XML/.
<LI>          Stilo
WebWriter: This is an HTML/XML editor. You can get it at
http://www.pimc.com/WebWriter/download.html.
<LI>          webMethods&#151;Automate the
Web: This WWW server software for XML can be accessed at
http://www.webmethods.com/home.html.
<LI>          Copernican Solutions Incorporated&#151;XML Developer's Toolkit
(XDK): You can see this XML middleware at
http://www.copsol.com/products/xdk/index.html.
<LI>          Sean Russell's XML
Package: This XML parser is written in Java. You can reach it at
http://jersey.uoregon.edu/ser/software/.
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<H4>
Software Companies
</H4>

<P>The companies listed here either already produce software that supports
XML, have already announced software packages that support XML, or can be
expected to release software that supports XML in the very near future (most
of the software in the following list is discussed in Chapter 16):
</P>

<UL>
<LI>          AIS
Berger-Levrault: This company makes SGML and XML
processing and database software. You can reach them at
http://www.balise.berger-levrault.fr/.
<LI>          ArborText
Inc.: They make SGML and XML editors, formatters,
and conversion software. They can be reached at
http://www.arbortext.com/.
<LI>          Chrystal Software
Inc.: This document and component management software company can be reached at
http://www.chrystal.com/.
<LI>          Copernican Solutions
Incorporated: XML, DSSSL, and SGML software is produced here. You can reach them at
http://www.copsol.com/.
<LI>          Grif
S.A.: This manufacturer of SGML and XML editors,
browsers, and formatters can be accessed at
http://www.grif.fr/.
<LI>          High
Text: These Topic Navigation Map experts and SGML
and HyTime consultants can be reached at
http://www.hightext.com/.
<LI>          Inso
Corporation: This manufacturer of SGML and XML
conversion
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<P>and browsing software can be reached at
http://www.inso.com/.
</P>
<LI>          Language Technology
Group: You can reach these makers of DSSSL and XML processing software at
http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/.
<LI>          Microsoft
Corporation: You can reach this manufacturer of XML
(and other) software at http://www.microsoft.com/.
<LI>          SoftQuad Home
Page: These makers of SGML editors and browsers can be accessed at
http://www.sq.com/.
<LI>          STILO Technology
Ltd.: These makers of SGML, HTML, and XML editors can be reached at
http://www.stilo.com.
<LI>     webMethods: This is a manufacturer of WWW server software
for XML. You can reach them at
http://www.webmethods.com/home.html.
</UL>

<H4>
DSSSL
</H4>

<P>Pointers to the parts of DSSSL that are directly relevant to XML (such as
the XS specification) can be found among the main lists of XML sites. The
following addresses are for those with wider interests; the first is historical (a copy
of the original DSSSL-O draft) and the others are for those who want to
follow the development of the DSSSL specification (you will need to refer to this
if you want to understand the XS specification):
</P>

<UL>
<LI>          DSSSL Online Application
Profile: This is the 1996.08.16 draft of the standard for the predecessor to XS. You can see it at
http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/sun-info/standards/dsssl/dssslo/do960816.htm.
<LI>          A Tutorial on
DSSSL: This is one of the best (and one of the
few) existing tutorials on DSSSL. You can access it at
http://csg.uwaterloo.ca/~dmg/dsssl/tutorial/tutorial.html.
<LI>          Introduction to
DSSSL: Paul Prescod's very able introduction to DSSSL's style language can be reached at
http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca:80/~papresco/dsssl/tutorial.html.
<LI>          DSSSList&#151;The DSSSL Users' Mailing
List: This is a public mailing list for the highly technical discussion of matters concerned with
DSSSL. You can reach it at
http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist/.
</UL>

<H4>
SGML
</H4>

<P>There are literally thousands of Web sites containing information
concerning SGML. The following is an extremely select list of the most useful sites:
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<LI>          SGML Open Home
Page: This is the organization for SGML vendors and other companies. You can see it at
http://www.sgmlopen.org/.
<LI>          SGML FTP
Archive: Erik Naggum in Norway has been archiving
the comp.text.sgml Usenet group for several years. The complete
archive, containing more than 11,000 Usenet postings, can be found at
ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no/pub/SGML.
<LI>          The SGML
University: This very useful repository for SGML bits
and pieces can be found at http://www.sgml.com/.
<LI>          The SGML Web
Page: This is probably the best existing online
source for SGML information. You can access it at
http://www.sil.org/sgml/.
<LI>          ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8 Home
Page: This is the semi-official site for the ISO working group on SGML. You can reach it at
http://www.ornl.gov/sgml/WG8/wg8home.htm.
<LI>          Charles F. Goldfarb's Web
Site: Because Charles is one of the inventors of SGML, this is one of the definitive sources for news
and information on the subject. You can find it at
http://www.sgmlsource.com/.
<LI>          SGML on the
Web: This is a useful collection of pointers to Web
sites that publish in SGML. You can reach it at
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/WebSGML/WebSGML.html.
<LI>          W3C SGML Working Group Mailing
List: This is the public mailing list for the W3C SGML working group. The messages are archived at
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-sgml-wg/.
</UL>

<P>You should note that the Web addresses given here can change at any
time. Although I personally have checked all of these addresses, and many
have proved to be stable for a period of several years, I cannot absolutely
guarantee that they are correct and, if so, for how long.
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