John's "Favorite Web Document Technology Books"

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

Send to Printer John's "Favorite Web Document Technology Books" 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.	CSS Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly)) by Eric A Meyer
	2.	HTML and XHTML Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly)) by Jennifer Niederst Robbins
	3.	XML Pocket Reference by Simon St Laurent
	4.	XSLT 1.0 Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly)) by Evan Lenz
	5.	Designing with Web Standards (2nd Edition) by Jeffrey Zeldman
	6.	Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly)) by Jennifer Niederst Robbins
	7.	The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web (Voices That Matter) by Dave Shea
	8.	Hacking RSS and Atom by Leslie M. Orchard
	9.	XML Hacks by Michael Fitzgerald
	10.	Firefox Hacks: Tips & Tools for Next-Generation Web Browsing (Hacks) by Nigel McFarlane
	11.	Xslt by Doug Tidwell
	12.	SVG Unleashed by Andrew H. Watt
	13.	XForms Essentials by Micah Dubinko
	14.	XQuery Kick Start by James McGovern
	15.	VRML 2.0 Sourcebook, 2nd Edition by Andrea L. Ames
	16.	XForms: XML Powered Web Forms by T. V. Raman
	17.	JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan
	18.	Relax Ng by Eric van der Vlist
	19.	Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide (VOICES) by Charles Wyke-Smith
This is John's list. Only John can edit it. You can make your own version of this list. Created by John on Mar 17, 2006.