John's "Favorite Web Document Technology Books"

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Most all of what makes the World Wide Web recognizable and usable is documents. The Web is built out of documents. Most of what it can do would not be doable if those documents did not follow standards.

These books talk about what those standards are, how to create documents that adhere to them, and how to write software that leverages of of them.

Several of the leading standards bodies for these documents are:

  • "World Wide Web Consortium (W3)":http://www.w3.org/ – industry-independent fundamental document standards: HTML, XHTML, XML, XSD, XForms, XLink, XPointer, XInclude, XSLT, XSL-FO, CSS, SVG, etc.
  • "OASIS":http://www.oasis-open.org/ – business document standards
  • "ISO":http://www.iso.org/ – known for XML Schema standards: RELAX NG – grammar based XML schema language; Schematron – rule based XML schema language
  1. 1.
    CSS Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly))
    by Eric A. Meyer

  2. 2.
    HTML and XHTML Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly))
    by Jennifer Niederst Robbins

  3. 3.
    XML Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly))
    by Simon St. Laurent

  4. 4.

  5. 5.
    Designing with Web Standards (2nd Edition)
    by Jeffrey Zeldman

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  7. 8.
    Hacking RSS and Atom
    by Leslie M. Orchard

  8. 9.
    XML Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips and Tools
    by Michael Fitzgerald

  9. 10.
    Firefox Hacks: Tips & Tools for Next-Generation Web Browsing
    by Nigel McFarlane

  10. 11.
    XSLT: Mastering XML Transformations
    by Doug Tidwell

  11. 12.
    SVG Unleashed
    by Andrew H. Watt

  12. 13.
    Xforms Essentials
    by Micah Dubinko

  13. 14.
    XQuery Kick Start
    by James McGovern

  14. 15.
    VRML 2.0 Sourcebook, 2nd Edition
    by Andrea L. Ames

  15. 16.
    XForms: XML Powered Web Forms
    by T. V. Raman

  16. 17.
    JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
    by David Flanagan

  17. 18.
    Relax Ng
    by Eric van der Vlist

  18. 19.
    Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide (VOICES)
    by Charles Wyke-Smith

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Created by John on Mar 17, 2006.
 

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