xml-dev - Re: advice to beginner

[Wayne Steele <xmlmaster@hotmail.com>]

e.e:

You will need to become familiar with the actual XML Specs. Some are 
manditory for any XML competance, others are useless, many are in between. 
I'll let you decide which is which. You can hunt them down from
   http://w3.org

Be sure to read these web sites on a regular basis:

   http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/sgmlnew.html
   http://www.xmlhack.com
   http://www.xml.com

www.xml.com also has a really good "Annotated XML Spec" you should read.

If you're going to be using XML in an MSWindows / IE5 environment, you 
should download the most recent version of MSXML, and the acompanying 
documentation (I don't have the URL, but try http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml 
).

MSXML does have some proprietary stuff, but the most recent version supports 
the standards pretty well, and the documentation is good (but you can only 
read it in Windows ).

I know you asked for books. Read this stuff too, though.

-Wayne Steele


>From: "e.e" <ersin.e@home.com>
>To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
>Subject: advice to beginner
>Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 13:14:30 -0500
>
>Hi everybody;
>I am going to keep it simple , I am very new to xml (just read Xml step by
>step , xml by example) but I do know html dhtml JavaScript vbscript c++
>,vb,oracle . So my question is : I would like to know what are the
>recommended books to get start with xml as a programmer not as a web
>designer?
>thanks
>ersin eser.

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