Additional Resources

For more information on XML, see the following resources:

1. http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml . Serves as a general reference; the Microsoft XML Developer Center Web site.
2. http://www.w3.org . Points to reference material; the World Wide Web Consortium's Web site, where XML standards officially reside.
3. http://www.xml.org . Shows various vertical-industry, XML standardization efforts.
4. http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/articles/xml09182000.asp . Lovett, Chris. "XML and www.microsoft.com." September 2000. Discusses how www.microsoft.com uses XML.
5. http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/articles/xmlencodings.asp .Lovett, Chris. "How to Encode XML Data." March 2000. Explains how character encoding works, particularly within XML and the MSXML DOM.