I am particularly grateful to my IT 220 students for their contributions to these links
Please note that many elementary bookmarks may also be found
at http://web.simmons.edu/~menzin/CS101_Site/bookmarks.html
Some of these bookmarks are old, but they include many
links on web-safe colors, free graphics, site design issues, JavaScript
tutorials, etc.
Please be sure to check the General Tools section, in addition to the sections
for specific topics.
Tools for many IT 220 topics
Tools for many IT topics - not course specific
XHTML/HTML
XHTML/HTML
Documentation
XHTML/HTML
Tutorials and Articles
XHTML/HTML
Links and Resources
HTML Tidy
and Validation
Other
XHTML Links and Resources
Note: DHTML is in the JavaScript section
CSS or Cascading Style
Sheets
CSS
Documentation
CSS
Tutorials and Articles
CSS Links
and Resources
JavaScript
JS Documentation
JS
Tutorials and Articles
JS Links
and Resources
DHTML - Dynamic HTML =
JavaScript + XHTML
Web Servers
Other General Information –
including information on SOAP, WSDL and UDDI
XML Documentation, Tutorials and Articles
Other Resources and
Articles
XML view of XHTML
XMLSpy
XML Other Parsers
XML
and Encryption
XSL/XSLT and XPath
XSL/XSLT and XPath - Articles,
Tutorials and Documentation
XSL etc. Tools and
Implementations
XML and
Security
Extensions to Other Languages -
MathML, eBXML, BPML, RDF and RSS etc.
CGI - see also Perl
Webmonkey: The Web Developer's Resource
Large and useful site on site design for professionals - from beginner to master- many links; Includes info on PERL etc
Sidebars for HTML, CSS, JavaScript etc. you may install in Netscape 6+ for heavy duty developers.
Links on Html, XHTML, JavaScript, Perl, CGI etc.
HotScripts
Articles on scripts
for many languages and technologies - Perl, PHP, Python, JavaScript, XML
Web Developer's Virtual Library
Tutorials on
authoring, including intermediate level ones; JavaScript, CSS, XML,etc.
w3schools
On-line tutorials for
many subjects - including CSS, XML, etc. Usually a very clear survey of
the issues, features, syntax.
Read before you
get into the grubby details for an excellent overview.
Resource for programmers in PERL, PHP, Python, etc. Major site.
Web services, Java, Database, Unix, XHTML etc. Some articles more obscure than useful. Newsletters
The Digital Divas - A Network of Digitally Gifted Women
Links
to sites for HTML, CGI, Perl, etc.
Survey of
browser usage
But beware that
Netscape and Mozilla may be confounded; see also description of
Mozilla
Many scripts in many languages
Includes HTML, RSS, Perl
Links to Dmitry’s Design lab ( a favorite), articles on XML, DHTML
Tutorials on web services, XML, XPath etc and links to browser statistics and info
All the specs on all the web standards and some (difficult) primers
Goodies To Go! Newsletter Archive
Index of useful articles on many topics - from technical issue to optimizing for search engines
FTP Utilities
SSH Communications Security : Home
Site for Secure FTP utility we are using
AnotherSecure FTP utility - 30 day trial
FTP for various OS's.
Liense for current edit0in of Ipswitch FTP Home Edition (low cost)
FTPplanet.com - A community site for users of FTP
Ipswitch's site, including guide on their FTP utility
A free FTP utility
Free FTP and SFTP (Secure FTP) utility (from GNU)
Another free FTP and SFTP utility
SFTP with a graphical front-end
While you are on a UNIX/LINUX machine:
man commandName gives the manual’s sections on that command.
A tutorial which starts with the basic but goes to more topics –
great resource
Very detailed course
There are many LINUX (and UNIX) groups on Google
The following are all very, very basic:
BigNoseBird Introduction and tutorials
Quick, barely large enough to be useful introduction to LINUX and file permissions with link to good vi tutorial and cgi scripts
Linux Primer from Clark University
from
A tutorial which starts with the basic but goes to more topics –
great resource
– including a place for newbies,
but most of the searches link to books at Amazon
To edit all scripts with one line of Perl
has a lot of info – perhaps more than you want
There are elementary tutorials on shell programming etc – starting basic
Shell programming Part 1 talks about basics – copying, moving files etc.;
part 2 talks about pipes, redirection and I/O.
vi and vim documentation and tutorials:
There is a tutorial on most UNIX/LINUX machines.
Type vimtutorial (Vim is an update of vi.)
Very useful cheat sheet of editing commands
SearchEngines.com - search engine rankings and search engine optimization tips.
Largest site on search engines; newsletters etc. How to get found and where you want to be found
Search Engines: What's the Difference?
Google vs. Yahoo vs. Ask Jeeves / Teoma
Goodies to Go! Newsletter #281
Search engines- met-tags and general intro
Goodies to Go! Newsletter #282
Which search engine do you wish to optimize your site for?
Goodies to Go! Newsletter #286
On getting found - belongs in Search Engines
Major Search Engines and Directories
Major search engines and how to get listed
Uses for meta-tags, including general and internal search engines
Web services, Java, Database, Unix, XHTML etc.
Reviews and free downloads at Download.com
Free FTP utility from Ipswitch - may be older version, in case can't find current version from Ipswitch
https://techrepublic-secure.com.com/5106-6242-24-15872.html?part=tr&subj=15872
CD on how to manage a small office network
PDFConverterX, PDF to Text Component for Conversion
Tool to convert PDF documents to text or HTML. Maybe old
Choosing a CMS - What you Need to Know
Choosing a CMS (Content Management System)
TIOBE Community Bulletin Board
Lists frequency of queries about various languages
Dr.
Dobbs Journal has links on many programming languages and plateforms
Web Accessibility Initiative
W3c's links to everything you could need to know about
accessibility problems on-line
and how to address
them.
This site links to EVERYTHING.
See how your site looks to someone who is color-blind with links (at bottom) to transforming tools
BTexact Technologies > Safe Web Colours
Browser safe colors for color-blind and links to other references
See how your site looks to someone who is color blind
BTexact Technologies > Colours > References
References on designing for color blind etc.
BTexact Technologies > Colours > Palette files
Palettes which show exactly what colors will get confused
Accessibility and the Web - Designing Web Pages that are Color-Blind Friendly
Rules so your site will be accessible for the color-blind
The Web Accessibility Initiative
Links to resources and guidelines from w3.org
This is an umbrella initiative
For pages which are read aloud
Web documentation for aural style sheets
From w3.org
Intro to terms
Builder.com : Program : Web Technologies
Newletters on CSS, XHTML, JavaScript etc.
Builder.com : Architect : Web Services
Newletters on web services
Goodies To Go! Newsletter Archive
Index of useful articles on many topics - from technical issue to optimizing for search engines
The Digital Divas - A Network of Digitally Gifted Women
Links to sites for HTML, CGI, Perl, etc.
Sun's developper site - info on Java, Wev Services, etc.
Links on Html, XHTML, JavaScript, Perl, CGI etc.
Editor which includes extenstions to MathML
Typing tutor - in case you need it or know someone who does
Print your own graph paper
HTML Codes - Special Characters - ASCII Table
Codes for < , accented letters and other special characters
Webmonkey | Reference: Special Characters
Another list of all the specal codes
XHTML Elements Library - HTML Tag Library
Links to summary of tags for HTML/XHTML by function (at bottom) and alphabetcally (to right of spnsored links box) and links to summary of modules (major chunks by function) for XHTML
Good intro to modularization of XHTML
You Already Write for Cell Phones - XHTML Basic
Modules and tags included in XHTML Basic, so you can write for PDAs, cell phones, etc. Also see link above this.
VisiBone HTML and CSS Products
Cards summarizing HTML, CSS, JavaScript sntax (to buy)
XHTML 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)
Turning HTML into XHTML from w3.org
What modules and versions will be coming your way when
See also CS101 pages and sections Documentation and Links and Resources
Intro to attributes and values
Good intro to modularization of XHTML
You Already Write for Cell Phones - XHTML Basic
Modules and tags included in XHTML Basic, so you can write for PDAs, cell phones, etc. Also see link above this.
What the title tag does for you and how to find it.
The trouble with using ems and percents for font sizing
Pitfalls of relative sizing for fonts
Are keywords the answer for font sizing?
Keywords work better than absolute or relative sizes for fonts
Excellent introduction to what CGI is and why it's needed.
How GET assembles a request, so the HTTP request can be isolated and CGI can isolate the search parameters and their values
WDVL: Problems With the GET Method
What's in an http header
How POST assembles a request etc
Specifying POST and to what CGI script
Why to switch from HTML to XHTML
How to set up your web page so that it may be downloaded into Excel
Change the 1-1 in the URL to 2-1, 3-1, etc. to step thru the tutorials
WDVL: Introduction to XHTML, with eXamples
XHTML tutorial
Quirks Mode - Using the DOCTYPE Tag
Why you need the DOCTYPE
Why you need to design for all browsers
Links to many code warriors and sites on dynamic HTML
WDVL: Introduction to XHTML with eXamples
HTML Tidy and connections between HTML and XHTML
Clean up your Web pages with HTML TIDY
Link to HTMLTidy - turns your HTML into XHTML.
The actual HTML Tidy programs
XHTML 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)
How to write HTML which is XHTML compatible
HTML Tidy on-line (interactive)
HTML Tidy Configuration Options Quick Reference
Options you may set for HTML Tidy at SourceForge. This is a huge site, with a library of Tidy that you can call in various languages, and tools for version management.
Another place to check your HTML and VALIDATE it!
Clean up your Web pages with HTML TIDY
What HTML Tidy does for your code
HTML Tidy - Frequently Asked Questions
W3C Markup Validation Service: Upload Files
Validate your XHTML
HTML Tidy Configuration Options Quick Reference
How to download your own copy of HTML Tidy and set the options
CSE HTML Validator Online Check
On-line HTML Validator
Customizable HTL editor with HTML Tidy and beyond for validation; free for personal use.
Good int0 to modularization of XHTML
CSE HTML Validator Online Check
On-line HTML Validator
Sidebars for HTML, CSS, javascript etc. you may install in Netscape 6+ for heavy duty developers.
HTML Editors and Software for Web Development
Editors, image map tools, etc.
Open Source Web Development - Dev Shed
Articles on XHTML,CSS, XML, Perl, etc
Specifying POST and to what CGI script
rdf:#$P0xNY3" last_modified=1087410341 add_date=1087410299 last_charset=ISO-8859-1 last_visit=1087412494>Focus on forms
The focus() and blur() methods
Accessibility and the Web - Designing Web Pages that are Color-Blind Friendly
Rules so your site will be accesible for the color-blind
The impact of links and link text on search engine placement
Getting found
Software Review: Hypertext Builder 2003 - WebReference.com
Hypertext Builder is an XHTML editor; costs only $12.
W3C Markup Validation Service: Upload Files
Validate your XHTML
XHTML Frequently Answered Questions
DHTML Code Samples, www.getElementById.com, get free DHTML Scripts and DHTML Tutorials
Links to many code warriors and sites on dynamic HTML
Editor which includes extenstions to MathML
About.com: http://watson.addy.com/
Tool to verify syntax, links, download spee etc for HTML pages
Status of various projects on style sheets - including CSS and XSL
Cascading Style Sheets, Level 2
The w3c specification of CSS. Includes what values may be assgned to what attributes, etc.
w3c's definitions of the characteristcs of fonts which you may specif, and how to do it.
Chart with all possible properties, possible value and default values.
Highly technical reference on CSS descriptors,mostly related to fonts. Advanced and not normally useful.
XHTML 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)
Guidelines so your XHTML will work in existing HTML browsers
VisiBone HTML and CSS Products
Cards summarizing HTML, CSS, JavaScript sntax (to buy)
Very useful table of attributes and values
Books and articles on learning CSS
w3c on style sheets - CSS and XSL
For pages which are read aloud
Web documentation for aural style sheets
From w3.org
Books etc. on CSS from w3c.org
First look at CSS
Dave Raggett's Introduction to CSS
from Dave Raggett at w3c.org
Usual excellent introduction from w3schools.com
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) By Example: CSS Resources
Fine set of tutorials and links
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Tutorial
About's CSS tutorilas, including table of contents to various lessons.
CSS Lesson 1: What are Cascading Style Sheets &# [ ]
Intro to CSS with links to many tutorials
CSS Lesson 2: Inline Styles &# [ ]
Where to put your styling - inline, external, etc.
CSS Lesson 3: <font> vs CSS &# [ ]
Text and font attributes
CSS Lesson 4: CSS Backgrounds &# [ ]
Backgrounds, boxes (can we live without tables?) and positioning
CSS Lesson 5: Tips and Tricks with CSS &# [ ]
DHTML and other tricks
How to get CSS2 to manage your bullets, numbering etc. Unfortunately IE has not yet implemented the :before and :after pseudo-elements
and dressing up your borders
HTML Goodies - Explorer Tutorials
Well written tutorials, very clear, but maybe dated (e.g. CSS1 instead of CSS2, and doesn't appear to know that Navigator supports CSS too)
About.com: http://www.w3j.com/5/s3.walsh.html
No-nonsense tutorial on CSS for someone who just wants to get on with the job, and has no patience for clicking thru hundreds of pages
Another link to the same tutorial
About.com: http://WDVL.com/Authoring/Style/Sheets/Tutorial.html
WDVL: Introduction to Style Sheets
Tutorial on CSS - good top-down approach; be sure to also look at their pages on Designing CSS Web Pages in the "Links and Resources for CSS" section below.
ate=1087406944 last_charset=ISO-8859-1>
Layers in CSS
WDVL: Linking Styles to Documents
How to link a style sheet to your page
What browsers support in CSS and how to Displaying Stylesheets Dynamically
What browsers support what features and links on work-arounds for older browsers
Dealing with differences in CSS floats in IE and Netscape
advanced article; also relevant to next article.
Rearrange page code to raise text relevance
How to move the important terms nearer the top of the pge so your page gets found by search engines.
Change rollover effects by changing the order of CSS styles
Rollovers and the order of CSS styles
Why CSS styling is for tables too
Using CSS for tables
Integrated Web Design: Strategies for Long-Term CSS Hack Management
How to keep your solutions to the CSS foibles of different browsers under control over time
Add clickable icons to your links
Use CSS to get pretty pictures as bullets in you lists
Top 10 CSS Tips for Creating and Using Cascading Style Sheets
WebDeveloper.com's Guide to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
:before and :after; does not work in IE
w3c.org- can't link to it too often
Books and articles on learning CSS
8 style sheets on w3c's server which you can link to from your pages.
Open Directory - Computers: Data Formats: Style Sheets: CSS
Many links for HTML, XHTML and CSS
Examples of style shets; they all sell crib sheets for codes etc.
More books by Eric Meyer on CSS
Offsite Beginning CSS Articles
Links to many CSS tutorials and articles
What browsers support in CSS and how to Displaying Stylesheets Dynamically
What browsers support what features and links on work-arounds for older browsers
Interesting series of pages on knowing who your audience is etc. and how to design for them. Recommended
Style sheet for all the WDVL pages
WDVL: Cascading Style Sheets Resources
Various on-line resources
Links to tutorials, design articles, and resources
Offsite Beginning CSS Articles
Links to many CSS tutorials and articles
Builder's JavaScript QuickStart Tool
Tutorial
The focus() and blur() methods
DHTML Demonstrations Using DOM/Style
Great DOM demos for Dynamic pages
Dynamic Drive DHTML Scripts- Preload Image (with progress bar) Script
Pre-loading images for swapping
Dynamic Drive DHTML(dynamic html) & JavaScript code library!
Huge site with DHTML scripts for dazzling effects
DHTML Code Samples, www.getElementById.com, get free DHTML Scripts and DHTML Tutorials
Link to several sites each of which has many DHTML scripts
SiteExperts.com - Your Community of Site Experts
Another community of web developers
Dynamic Drive DHTML(dynamic html) & JavaScript code library!
Lively effects using
DHTML, JavaScript and CSS. Not for seate pages
DHTML Code Samples, www.getElementById.com, get free DHTML Scripts and DHTML
Tutorials
Links to many code warriors and sites on dynamic HTML
Dynamic HTML...Are You Ready to Step Up to the Plate? Part I
The “home” links to many articles about web services
MetaMap of how the different technologies are related
May be more useful after you know a little about the area
The bottom has links to vendor training, such as that at CapeClear, Systinet
Collaxa, and Grand Central. These sites have lots of information – e.g. tutorials
on regular expressions and Java Web Services at CapeClear, design patterns for
business services at Grand Central and Middleware.
Goodies to Go! Newsletter #289
Hosting on windows vs. Linux/UNIX
Sun's site for web services info and downloads
Using Apache with Microsoft Windows - Apache HTTP Server
Info on Apache for Windows
WDVL: Table of Contents on Web Programming
Tutorial on server-side programming and sending info from HTML forms. Excellent intro.
What's in an http header
With links to many subgroups
InfoWorld: Web services alphabet soup: February 20, 2004: By Jon Udell: Application Development
Web services alphabet soup - and modularity
Web services B2B demonstration: The complete series
9-part series of a complete B2B web service implementation
Trying to make Web services make sense
Are the standards there yet?
Intro to terms
XML.com: A Web Services Primer
primer on web services terminology
XML.com: Web Services Integration Patterns, Part 1
Patterns of web services
XML.com: Web Services Integration Patterns, Part 2
More of same
Programs to manage, monitor, bill for web services
Several articles on state of web services in 2004
Testing a SOA
IBM’s Alphaworks site has many topics
Not for newbies
The Value of a Service Oriented Architecture
Microsoft’s Office Bridge to hook into web services
Recurrent payments and PayPal
The bottom has links to vendor training, such as that at CapeClear, Systinet
Collaxa, and Grand Central. These sites have lots of information – e.g. tutorials
on regular expressions and Java Web Services at CapeClear, design patterns for
business services at Grand Central and Middleware.
He first is no quality of service (QOS) warranties. There are other issues, too.
As the files get bigger and bigger, what happens?
Web services and security issues
Related to data transit
Usual excellent start from w3schools.com
From w3.org. If you have already worked through the w3schools tutorial,
Start at section 2.1
Usual excellent start from w3schools.com
Interesting demos. May need to poke around this site a bit.
Can Try it! And see
the WSDL
code behind it
WS-Security is the specification for web services
security
This is from OASIS
Web services, SOA and Application Frameworks
Making them work together to address issues such as scalability,
Security, and transaction and state management.
There are also links to a reading list on the left.
This site, which includes the next few links, focuses on web services architecture.
Web Services, UDDI and eMarketplaces
The interaction of eBXML and WebServices
IBM’s site on ontology-based web
services
XML.com: XML From the Inside Out -- XML development, XML resources, XML specifications
XML.com: XML From the Inside Out -- XML development, XML resources, XML specifications
Cover Pages: Extensible Markup Language (XML)
What the basic terms mean
Includes description of the many
working groups and links to them, to various languages
specifications and versions, and to many other resources.
What are the components of an XML Schema
And here they are as a DTD
Homepage
XML Specs
from w3c.org
XMLNamespaces
from w3c.org
Introductory tutorial from the About.com site
Tutorials – note: Tutorials on SOAP and WSDL are under the “Web
Services” heading
XML Tutorial
from w3schools
Great introductiory tutorial.
See also their
description of XML syntax
TopXML : XML Tools, XML Articles and XML Learning Tutorials
Many tutorials - XML, SOAP, XSLT, etc and also links to XML parsers. Great site.
Good starting tutorial
So you don’t get scared away.
But doesn’t get to schemas
From IBM, Microsoft, etc. at various levels and on sub-topics (e.g. security)
Wonderful set of links to tools, tutorials, and many resources for XML
Also has info on links to databases and server-side uses of XML
Tutorials on everything from HTML to XML
Some in many languages (e.g. Czech)
XML Schema from w3.org---good if you know a little bit
Primer, Structures and DataTypes
TECFA’s huge set of links on XML
Enormous and very useful set of links on validators and parsers,
XML, XSL etc, tutorials and news about XML languages.
XFront has links to many great tutorials –
including XML Schema, Canonical XML, Best Practices on same, etc and also
XSDs for all countries, all currencies, etc. Great source!
Tutorial from Roger Costello on Best Practices for XML Schema
Another link to the same tutorial
Tutorial on schemas
There are several. This is the most advanced so far
Usual excellent introduction from w3school.com
From IBM
From IBM
Manipulating XML in Java (see also a search for JDOM)
Tutorial looks at SAX, DOM, JDOM and JAXP
Link to Xerces parser, implementations of XSL, etc
A very important site
Microsoft's XML developer center, including articles, from intro to high level, and links
Open Source Web Development - Dev Shed
Articles on XHTML,CSS, XML, Perl, etc
XML Rich Client Technology Strengthens Java - Computerworld
More jargon than light
JARS Automatic Resource Listing
Java class to automate the encoding of properties from Java into XML
Tutorial on schemas
Everything you always wanted to know about SAX (and XmlReader)
When to use SAX and when to use DOM
Application Design: Use DOM to create data-driven HTML documents
Using DOM to get conditional XML
Namespaces and how to avoid naming conflicts
XML.com: XML From the Inside Out -- XML development, XML resources, XML specifications
O'Reilly's XML site - many links
JARS Automatic Resource Listing
Class to encode from Java to XML
Database Configuration, the XML Alternative
Configuring / designing your database with XML
An open unmoderated discussion list on development of various XML languages;
now managed by OASIS.
For the knowledgeable.
Collection of on-line reference material on SGML/XML languages and various
standards.
For the knowledgeable
(except possiblby the news stories).
News items are listed
in the Cover Story
TECFA’s huge set of links on XML
Enormous and very useful set of links on validators and parsers,
XML, XSL etc, tutorials and news about XML languages.
How to embed XML in an HTML Page
Long and wonderful list from w3.org
By platform, or vendor or name etc.
This is the link for xml; manay links to subtopics
XML takes over the user interface
With, we hope better solutions to accessibility issues
Interesting view of t ubiquity and power of XML
XML and Java and the Document Object Model
This IBM site has many links to tutorials, information and documentation
On using Java to manipulate XML files, etc. Very valuable.
Usual excellent introduction from w3school.com
From IBM
From IBM
Manipulating XML in Java (see also a search for JDOM)
Tutorial looks at SAX, DOM, JDOM and JAXP
XML files tend to get very large
Which can cause problems – which some companies are working on
Microsoft’s DOM validator from XML
Courtesy of w3schools.
XHTML 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)
Discussion of XHTML1.0 as a re-formulation of HTML
XHTML Frequently Answered Questions
FAQs about why bother going to XHTML
XHTML 1.1 - Module-based XHTML
XHTML1.1 which is now a strict reformulation of HTML in XML
See how HTML (XHTML) is formulated in an XML DTD
There are several DTDs (depending on the version of XHTML you want
Download Home Edition of XMLSpy (free)
XMLSpy is a wonderful tool, and now the home edition is free.
Documentation and a brief tutorial are also available here, or a 30-trial of the Enterprise Edition.
Stylevision 2004 - XSLT Editing Tool
Download site for XML Spy
Download page for home version of XMLSpy
Link to Xerces parser, implementations of XSL, etc
A
very important site
tools: Developer Resources - FREE Tools
Download page for home version of XMLSpy
TopXML: Learn about XML Parsers
XML parsers including Microsoft's
TopXML: Learn about XML Parsers
more on Microsoft's
Xerces is the free XML parser from Apache; does not support certain features of XML per Apache in June 2004
Links and brief descriptions for many XML parsers.
Module for Java Seing to edit XML and XHTML
JARS Automatic Resource Listing
XML/XSLT editor (java based)
Parsing XML documents with Perl's XML::Simple
PERL module which has an XML parser (written in PERL)
Free on-line validator from
Why both CSS and XSL - which should I use?
From w3c - who brought you
both standards
When to use CSS (whenever you
can) and when to us XSL (when you must)
XSL
What are the components of XSL (XSLT, XPath, etc.) ?
Very useful page with many good links
w3.org documentation on XSLT
w3c on style sheets - CSS and XSL
The Extensible Stylesheet Language Family (XSL)
Links to specs, tutorials, and articles on XSL, XSLT etc.
Simple introduction, but you’ll need the www.w3schools.com
Or other tutorial to go further
How to translform XML into XHTML
Including links to XPath, XQuery, XSLT, XSL-FO etc.
There is a large list of links to specs on all these languages, mailing lists,
and software.
A great starting
place for these technologies.
You can also find links to examples of XSL style sheets (e.g. at TopXML)
Status of various projects on style sheets - including CSS and XSL
What XSL is and why you should use it. Good start.
Sidebar: Additional resources about XSL - Computerworld
Books and links on XSLT
Spinning Your Code with XSLT and JSF in Cocoon
Using XSLT with Java Beans etc. Advanced.
Discover the Wonders of XSLT-Part 1
Good intro - XSLT itself
Discover the Wonders of XSLT -Part 2: XPaths
XPath
Discover the Wonders of XSLT-Part 3 of 3: Advanced Techniques
Tests and advanced techniques
Understanding the XPath Data Model
XPath data model and how it works, with links to info on infosets. Not for beginners
XSLT - part 1 of the utorial
Discover the Wonders of XSLT: XPaths
XSLT and XPath - part 2 of the tutorial
Discover the Wonders of XSLT: Advanced Techniques
XSLT - advanced - tests - part 3 of the tutorial
Discover the Wonders of XSLT: XSLT Quirks
XSLT - quirks- part 4 of the tutorial
Discover the Wonders of XSLT: Workflows
Functions and Multiple Files
From w3schools.org I think this is the clearest of the introductory tutorials.
XPath tutorial with links to examples on the left side
From Zvon
From TopXML
The primary purpose of XPath is to address parts of an XML document. XPath uses a compact, non-XML syntax to facilitate use of XPath within URIs and XML attribute values. XPath gets its name from its use of a path notation as in URLs for navigating through the hierarchical structure of an XML document.
Java JAXP, Writing Java Code to Emulate an XSLT Transformation
Emulating XSLT transformations in Java
Tutorial
Facilitating Teamwork with XML and XSL
XSL-FO - Extensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects
XSL-FO for formatting objects
Introduction to XSL - XSL, XSLT, XPath, and XSL Formatting Objects
Intro to XSL
Tools and implementations of XSLT
Free implementation of XSLT written in java
JARS Automatic Resource Listing
XML/XSLT editor (java based)
How to transform XML into XHTML
XML Encryption
Added to Apache Project
Encryption
working group at w3.org
How BusinessReportingML became too complex to work - good case study in design
What is eBXML? (hint: e is electronic and B is for Business) Follow links at bottom for series of articles - food series.
XBRL to Sharpen Banks' Biz Reports
XBRL (eXtended Business Reporting Language) must be used by banks and other public companies (per Sarbanes-Oxley Law) to consolidate units when they report their fiancial results; will also migrate to internal reports.
XML Variant to Ease Financial Reporting
How XMRL will help
Sarbanes-Oxley: Road to Compliance
What's involved in compliance for Sarbanes-Oxley from an IT point of view
Resilient: Making processes into objects - News - ZDNet
BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) for the non-techie
The interaction of eBXML and WebServices
UBL, or Universal Business Language
Uses XML to define a vocabulary for common business forms, such as purchase orders etc.
It is also designed to work with eBXML
Add XML functionality to your Flash movies
FlashXML
Home page at w3.org
Web authoring tool which includes support for MathML
Editor which includes extensions to MathML
A markup language for designing GUIs
This area is still changing – suggest you search the w3.org site for these two extensions.
Links to books on VoiceXML etc.
From WDVL.com
TimeML is a markup language for temporal events
An evolving specification for including &merging XML documents
Not surprisingly it works only with schemas (no DTDs)
RDF – or Resource Description Framework – is a resource for describing catalogs:
RDF Primer from w3.org
RDF Spec from w3.org
RDF is of interest to librarians, etc.
RSS – or Really Simple Syndication - is how an XML feed is used for blogging
and to update news continuously.
From O’Reilly – good casual introduction;
Includes a sample to get you started
From webreference.com – lots of information
RSS Syndication and Aggregation
RSS - Using XML to feed info on sites to subscribers
RSS monitors (new) content on sites and feeds it to subscribers. May also be used for on-going education.
Many scripts including for RSS
Mother of Perl site
Exploring RSS and XML in Flash
RSS Feed for
site listing free xml tools
RSS Enclosure exposure or pod-casting
An audio RSS feed
How to create your own RSS news feed
From w3.org, but with a quick “cheat sheet” on how to do it
IBM maintains a site called alphaworks which provides
Current information about RSS and other new technologies
All the following information on RSS is from one of my students:
Scripting news – by Dave Winer,
Winer designed this format at Userland
Using RSS 0.9
Clear explanation, tho’ RSS 2.0 is current spec
RSS Aggregators / readers
Full list at http://blogspace.com/rss/readers
Mac OS X: NetNewsWire (http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/)
Windows: SharpReader (http://www.sharpreader.net)
Linux: Straw (http://www.nongnu.org/straw)
Web: Bloglines (http://www.bloglines.com)
RSS Validators
FeedValidator.org (http://feedvalidator.org/)
UserLand’s validator (for 0.9x only) (http://rss.scripting.com/
Sites with RSS Feeds:
British Broadcasting Corporation (http://news.bbc.co.uk/shared/bsp/hi/services/htmlsyndication/html/default.stm)
DevX (http://www.devx.com/DevX/Article/16190)
LiveJournal Syndicated Feeds (http://www.livejournal.com/syn/list.bml)
United States Department of Defense (http://www.dod.gov/news/rss/)
WebReference.com (http://www.webreference.com/services/news/)
For a more exhaustive list, go to the RSS Compendium (http://allrss.com/rssfeeds.html)
Resource for programmers in PERL, PHP, Python, etc. Major site.
WDVL: Table of Contents on Web Programming
Tutorial on server-side programming and sending info from HTML forms. Excellent intro.
What's in an http header
What is CGI?
Elementary
introduction
CGI Scripts - Writing and Using CGI
CGI tutorial
The Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
What is CGI?
Web Development Primer
Elementary
introduction to the technologies you find server-side (ASP, Perl, PHP etc.)
And a sample PERL script to parse the data and snd a thank you
HTML Forms Tutorial - Method, Mailto Forms, and Multiple Pages
GET - About Perl & PHP Glossary
POST - About Perl & PHP Glossary
Reading CGI Data From Perl Scripts
Using GET and POST methods with Perl scripts
Decoding CGI form data in Perl scripts
About.com: http://www.cgi-resources.com/
Links to very many CGI, PERL and CGI scripts
Decoding CGI form data in Perl scripts
Very well written tutorials, but maybe dated.
About.com: http://webreview.com/wr/pub/98/01/16/style/index.html
Finding good CGI scripts
WDVL: What the heck is server-side scripting anyway?
Excellent introduction to what CGI is and why it's needed.
Excellent intro. tutorial on serve-side scripting. The Table Of Contents.
How GET assembles a request, so the HTTP request can be isolated and CGI can isolate the search parameters and their values
WDVL: Problems With the GET Method
What's in an http header
WDVL: Sending Text to the Web Browser
The content-type line
.com/Authoring/Scripting/Tutorial/post.html" id="rdf:#$G0xNY3" last_modified=1087409618 add_date=1087409596 last_charset=ISO-8859-1>WDVL: The <Form> Tag
Specifying POST and to what CGI script
What happens when you click on "submit"
Links to CGI scripts - probably f or purchase
Form validation-Goodies to Go! Newsletter #290
Validating a form before sending it to a cgi script-mainly to be sure all fields are filled in.
Library of CGI scripts
Reminder on how to change permissions on UNIX/LINUX (chmod)
Tutorial on chmod, in case you’ve forgotten
Library of Regular Expressions
From the people (O’Reilly) who
publish a book on the subject- includes kind words about their own (excellent)
book
CGI-LIB.pl
homepage
Also directly accesible at Berkely
Includes
documentation, source files, examples, etc.
Tutorial on regular expressions
ActiveState - ActiveState products open source programming languages tools
Download site for ActivePerl
In table of contents, look for "Getting Started" to see how run example.pl Also open it in Notepad
ActivePerl Help - Online Docs : Getting Started
ActivePerl getting started
ActivePerl Help - Online Docs : ActivePerl FAQ
ActivePerl FAQs
Perl.com: The Source for Perl -- perl development, perl conferences
Articles etc for serious PERL programmers from the O'Reilly book folk
Where to find MODULES to add many useful functions to your PERL -e.g. the standard module, oraperl (for Oracle databases) etc.
About.com’s info on building and installing perl modules
This site includes several very useful groups (se links in upper left) – one for Perl beginners, another on Perl modules, and another for miscellaneous Perl questions. Can not be recommended enough. Search for key words in the Perl beginners group, for example, and then follow the whole thread (link in the upper right).
Perldoc.com - Perl Documentation
Site for documentation or core Perl
HotScripts
Articles on scripts
for many languages and technologies - Perl, PHP, Python, JavaScript, XML
ASPN
Resource for programmers in PERL, PHP, Python, etc. Major site.
Build a custom installation of Perl and check system requirements - see warning on RedHat Linux v8
Fast and dirty reminder about regular expressions
A free tutorial
http://htmlgoodies.earthweb.com/primers/perl/
PERL primer
Parsing XML documents with Perl's XML::Simple
PERL module which has an XML parser (written in PERL)
learn.perl.org: The site for people learning Perl.
Good
listing of current books at all levels
Perl Intro - from HTML Goodies
Introduction
to Perl
Quick tutorial
Google Help Group
on Perl etc
Beginners
Group on Perl in Google
Excellent resource
Everything you ever
wanted to know about perl's module cgi.pm
From Lincoln Stein,
who wrote the cgi module
Fetching
parameters in Perl
or try
Tutorial on Regular Expressions in Perl
Looks very complete. From PerlDoc
Documentation on Regular Expressions in Perl
Goes with the above tutorial.
Perl
libraries for www interactions - e.g. HTTP etc
Also Perl tutorials
This is the Mother of Perl site – some quite advanced
Decoding CGI form data in Perl scripts
Reading CGI Data From Perl Scripts
A Perl script that reads and parses CGI data
Matt's Script Archive, Inc. :: Free Perl CGI Scripts
Links for free scripts
Open The Crypt / Joe's Free CGI Scripts From The Crypt / www.getcruising.com
More free scripts
From O’Reilly - perhaps
because they’ve published a book on this topic
Perl Scripts and Modules
From About.com.
Not as complete as CPAN
Also Perl tutorials
This is the Mother of Perl site – some quite advanced
How to embed XML in an HTML Page
Implementing
Patterns within PHP
PHP -Entry Point - Lesson One
Elementary
tutorial on PHP, with some info on pro's and con's;
links to t0 various PHP sites
Commentary from the PHP folks
PHP Tutorial
From About - a start
PHP: Introduction - Manual
PHP Tutorial -
from its makers
How to handle forms
in PHP
Extract XML document statistics with PHP
Using PHP to extract stats about XML documents.
PHP Tutorial
Google help group on PHP – installation etc
Zend makes PHP interpreters, etc
The main PHP site
Home site for php,
including documentation, download of php processor, and tutorial
Short tutorial
Python tutorial
How to do regular
expressions in Python
ASP Tutorial
from w3schools - usually excellent introduction
ASP Tutorial
from HTML Goodies - usually excellent intro; may be dated
Implement a flexible shopping cart with XML and ASP
W3C Inks Key Web Services Language
To coordinate a series of services - WS-CDL and also about BPEL
Language may be used to describe peer-to-peer interactions
Web Services Choreography Description Language (WS_CDL)
Working draft of language spec from w3.org
Amazon Web Services reaches 50,000 developers
Amazon.com : Help / AWS home page
Home page for Amazon Web Services
Amazon.com : Help / AWS home page / FAQ
Amazon Web Services FAQs - including what are they etc.
Amazon.com : Help / AWS home page / Dev portal release / XSLT scratch pad
Request Amazon's XML/XSLT Scratch Pad
Amazon.com browse notes
Amazon Web Services: A Brief Introduction Using PHP - Website Publisher..
XML.com: Amazon's Web
Services and XSLT.
Java(TM) 2 SDK, Standard Edition Documentation 1.3.1
Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition, Installation Notes
CoffeeCup Effects Factory - ZDNet Downloads
Animate Java applets/ images and link them to a URL