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DocBook: The Definitive Guide

DocBook: The Definitive Guide

By Norman Walsh & Leonard Muellner
1st Edition October 1999
1-56592-580-7, Order Number: 5807
652 pages, $36.95 , Includes CD-ROM

Appendix D. Resources

The quantity of information about SGML and XML is growing on a daily basis. This appendix strives to provide both a complete bibliography of the references mentioned explicitly in this book, and a sampling of resources for additional information about DocBook and about SGML and XML in general. Although not all of these resources are focused specifically on DocBook, they still provide helpful information for DocBook users.

D.1. Latest Versions of DocBook

As of July 1998, responsibility for the advancement and maintenance of the DocBook DTD has been transferred from the Davenport Group, which originated it, to the DocBook Technical Committee of OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) at http://www.oasis-open.org/.

The latest releases of DocBook can be obtained from the official DocBook home page at http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/.

D.2. Resources for Resources

Here's where to find pointers to the subjects you want to find.

The Most Recent Version of This Book

The most recent online version of this book can be found at http://docbook.org/.

The Most Recent Version of DocBook

The most recent version of DocBook, and the most recent information about the DTD, can be found at the DocBook home page: http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/.

Robin Cover's SGML/XML Web page

Easily the largest and most up-to-date list of SGML/XML resources; can be found at http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/.

comp.text.sgml and comp.text.xml

USENET newsgroups devoted to SGML and XML issues.

FAQs

For pointers to several SGML FAQs, see http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/general.html#faq. The XML FAQ is available at http://www.ucc.ie/xml.

XML.com

XML.com, run jointly by Songline Studios and Seybold, is a site devoted to making XML accessible.

D.3. Introductory Material on the Web

These documents provide a good background for a better understanding of SGML and XML.

A Gentle Introduction to SGML

A useful and simple document available in its original form at http://www-tei.uic.edu/orgs/tei/sgml/teip3sg/index.html.

A Technical Introduction to XML

A close look at the ins-and-outs of XML is available at http://nwalsh.com/docs/articles/xml/.

D.5. Internet RFCs

RFCs ("Request for Comments") are standards documents produced by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

RFC 1630

Universal Resource Identifiers in WWW.

RFC 1736

Functional recommendations for Internet Resource Locators.

RFC 1737

Functional requirements for Uniform Resource Names.

RFC 1738

Uniform Resource Locators (URL).

RFC 1766

Tags for the identification of languages

D.6. Specifications

Here are pointers to the specifications.

The XML Specification

The W3C technical recommendation that defines XML 1.0.

Namespaces in XML

The W3C technical recommendation that defines XML namespaces.

Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) 1.0 Specification

The W3C technical recommendation that defines MathML, an XML representation of mathematical equations.

The Unicode Standard, Version 2.0

The Unicode standard.

Unicode Technical Report #8

Version 2.1 of the Unicode standard.

D.7. Books and Printed Resources

There are also a number of books worth checking out:

Developing SGML DTDs: From Text to Model to Markup, Eve Maler and Jeanne El Andaloussi, 0-13-309881-8, Prentice-Hall PTR, Upper Saddle River, 1996.

Practical SGML, Erik van Herwijnen, 2, 0-7923-9434-8, Kluwer Academic Press, 1994.

The SGML Handbook, Charles Goldfarb and Yuri Rubinksy, 0-7923-9434-8, 1991, Oxford University Press.

SGML: an author's guide to the Standard Generalized Markup Language, Martin Bryan, 0-201-17535-5, 1988, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.

$GML: The Billion Dollar Secret, Chet Ensign, 0-13-226705-5, 1998, Prentice Hall.

Creating Documents with XML, Chris Maden, 1-56592-518-1, 1999, O'Reilly & Associates.

XML: A Primer, Simon St. Laurent, 1-5582-8592-X, 1998, MIS:Press/IDG Books Worldwide.

Understanding SGML and XML Tools, Peter Flynn, 0-7923-8169-6, 1998, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

The LaTeX Web Companion: Integrating TeX, HTML, and XML, Michel Goosens and Sebastian Rahtz, 0-201-43311-7, 1999, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.

D.8. SGML/XML Tools

An attempt to provide a detailed description of all of the SGML/XML tools available is outside the scope of this book.

For a list of recent of SGML tools, check out Robin Cover's SGML/XML page at OASIS: http://www.oasis-open.org/cover.

For a list of XML tools, check out XML.com: http://www.xml.com/.

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