Extensible Markup Language (XML), HyperText Markup Language (HTML), and Java

Extensible Markup Language (XML)

Documentation

• Current draft W3C XML Specification:
  • HTML Format
  • PostScript (gzip) Format
  • PostScript (zip) Format
  • RTF (gzip) Format
  • RTF (zip) Format
• DataChannel's ChannelWorld XML Links
• James Tauber's <?XML!>: The Extensible Markup Language
• Peter Flynn's XML FAQ
• w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org Mail Archives

Software

• The Language Technology Group's LT XML
• Peter Murray-Rust's JUMBO Browser
• Norbert H. Mikula's NXP - Norbert's XML Parser
• IBM's www.ibm.com/xml/

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

General Guides

• Web Developer's Virtual Library
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C):
  • HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
  • Amaya - the W3C testbed client
  • HTML 3.2 Reference Specification (Includes DTD)
  • HTML 4.0 Working Draft Release
  • HTML Plus guide
• Michael Grobe's NCSA HTML Quick Reference
• Sandia HTML Reference Manual
• Webheads HTML Training Site
• Peter Flynn's HTML Quick Reference Guide

Validation

• W3C Validator
• htmlhelp validator
• Yahoo Validation and Checkers
• Weblint Gateways

Multilingual Support

• RFC 2070: Internationalization of the Hypertext Markup Language
• Alan Flavell's HTML Internationalization Page
• MULE (MULtilingual Enhancements to GNU Emacs)
  • MULE FTP Archive
  • MULE FAQ
  • Emacs W3 Web Browser (William Perry)
• Cyrillic (Evgeny Mironov)
• Japanese (Katsuhiko Momoi)
• Displaying Japanese on the Web
• Persian/Arabic PMosaic
• Accent Software (Multilingual Mosaic and related products)
• The Alis Multilingual Browser

Style

• Julia Hayden's Ubiquitous Choice (see also her Ubiquitous Treatise on Web Design)
• How to write HTML files
• Composing Good HTML

Editing and Maintenance Tools

• MOMspider (verifies linked URLs) (also available by ftp)
• SpHyDir for OS/2

Servers

• OS/2 Web Servers
• Center for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval (CNIDR) Isite Z39.50 index and search software

CGI and Forms

• Michael Grobe's Instantaneous Introduction to CGI Scripts and HTML Forms
• NCSA Syntax Overview
• CERN httpd Guide
• Common Gateway Inteface (CGI)
• Mail Form Sample at Pitt (IANWeb)
• Mail Forms (tar.Z)
• MIT CGI Mail Forms home page and an example in use at Pitt's Falk Library Server
• Lincoln Stein's CGI.pm (also available by ftp)
• CGI Security
  • Paul Phillips's CGI Security Home Page
  • Paul Phillips's Writing Safe CGI Scripts
  • Tad Lane's CGI Security
  • Lincoln Stein's WWW Security FAQ
  • Michael Van Biesbrouck's CGI Security Tutorial
  • NCSA's Writing Secure CGI Scripts
  • Jennifer Myers's Guide to Escaping Metacharacters

Images

• CERN IMG Element in HTML
• Collection of Buttons, Arrows, Dingbats, etc.
• Melmac Transparent Images
• INOTE Image Annotation Java applet (from IATH)

Java and JavaScript

• Sun's General and Java pages (available at java.sun.com or www.javasoft.com)
• local Java Development Kit 1.1.2 Documentation
• Gamelan
• JARS
• Java Boutique