Further Reading

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• I've found Liz Castro's book XML for the World Wide Web Visual Quickstart Guide to be a concise yet thorough treatment of the subject. Liz writes good books, and I've found this one particularly useful.

• O'Reilly's XML in a Nutshell also offers a concise treatment of the subject material. Unfortunately, it does not cover schemas, but it does cover most of the other important topics adequately.

• Steve Holzner's Inside XML is also a good read. It's comprehensive and covers many key XML subjects in great detail.

• Learning XML , another book by O'Reilly, is another good introductory text. It contains a nice introduction to the many XML parsers out there and delves into a few topics omitted by some of the other books (for example, XML Schema).

• The XSLT Programmer's Reference by Michael Kay will tell you everything you need to know about XSLT. Michael is also the author of SAXON, one of the best XSLT processors out there.

• The Web site of the W3C (http://www.w3c.org) is as valuable a source on XML, HTML, and all things Web-related as you'll find. The specifications documents can be a little dry at times, but they're worth reading if you can get through them. The site also has a number of links to XML- related tutorials, free tools, and other resources.

• Most of the major software vendors have a large XML portal of some type available from their sites. I've found the Microsoft and Sun Microsystems sites to be the most informative.

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