Lists of Bests: John's "Favorite Web Document Technology Books" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/658 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 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:46:44 GMT en-us 0 50 19 0 0 CSS Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16869 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16869"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41-ijGtsq6L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eric A. 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