PLEASE NOTE: All CMIT modules have now been withdrawn,
and are unavailable for the 2010/11 academic year
These web pages and lecture notes are left as reference for those students
requiring CMIT modules to complete their programme only, and are not an
indication of modules currently offered.
MIT3112/3212
Reading List
Practical Handbook
Goldberg, Kevin Howard (2008)- XML: Visual Quickstart Guide. Second Edition. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press.
Book and PDF details are available on the publisher's website. - - or -
- Castro, Elizabeth (2002)
- XML for the World Wide Web: Visual Quickstart Guide. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press.
Book details and author's website (with book examples to download) are available online.
Available for around £10.50 from amazon.co.uk.
- and specifically for the assignment -
Linton, J (2007)- Beyond Schemas: Planning Your XML Model. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media. Available at: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527709/index.html [Accessed February 19, 2009].
Copies of all these books may be borrowed from the CMIT Office (rm 151), Queen's Building.
Websites
- XML 1.0 Recommendations
- http://www.w3.org/XML
- CSS 2.0 Recommendations
- http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
- XSL Recommendations
- http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL
- Robin Cover's XML News and Online Resources
- http://xml.coverpages.org/xml.html/. General news and reviews of standards and software.
- David Pawson's XSL FAQ
- http://dpawson.co.uk/xsl/. Lots of examples of good XSL practice.
Further Reading & Reference Books
- Ray, Eric T (2003)
- Learning XML. Second Edition. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly and Associates.
Introductory text which covers the basics very thoroughly.
- Niederst, Jennifer(2001)
- Web Design in a Nutshell. Second Edition. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly and Associates.
Good reference for basic CSS, and general HTML techniques.
- Harold, Elliotte Rusty & Means, W. Scott (2004)
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XML in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly and Associates.
Good quick-reference guide to all the standards, though the W3C website will be more up to date.
- Tidwell, D (2001)
- XSLT. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly and Associates.
A thorough guide to writing and using XSLT 1.0 stylesheets.
- Walsh, Norman & Muellner, Leonard (1999-2002)
- DocBook: The Definitive Guide. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly and Associates.
Theory and examples of a widely-used document standard. Full text also available online.
Other Useful References
Bates, C., 2003. XML in Theory and Practice, John Wiley & Sons.
Bray, T. et al., 2008. Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth Edition). World Wide Web Consortium. Available at: http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xml-20081126/ [Accessed February 19, 2009].
Castro, E., 2000. XML for the World Wide Web, Peachpit Press.
Clark, J. & DeRose, D., 1999. XML Path Language (XPath) Version 1.0, Available at: http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xpath-19991116.
Cover, R., Cover Pages: Extensible Markup Language (XML). Available at: http://xml.coverpages.org/xml.html [Accessed February 19, 2009].
DeRose, S., Maler, E. & Orchard, D., 2001. XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.0, Available at: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xlink-20010627/.
Goldberg, K.H., 2008. XML: Visual QuickStart Guide Second., Peachpit Press.
Kay, M., 2008. XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference 4th ed., John Wiley & Sons.
Kay, M., 2004. XSLT 2.0 Programmer's Reference 3rd ed., John Wiley & Sons.
Linton, J., 2007. Beyond Schemas: Planning Your XML Model | O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media. Available at: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527709/index.html [Accessed February 19, 2009].
Mangano, S., 2005. XSLT Cookbook 2nd ed., O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Pawson, D., XSL Frequently Asked Questions. Available at: http://dpawson.co.uk/xsl/ [Accessed February 19, 2009].
Ray, E., 2003. Learning XML Second., O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Stayton, B., 2007. DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide 4th ed., Sagehill Enterprises.
Tidwell, D., 2008. XSLT Second., O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Vlist, E.V.D., 2002. XML Schema: The W3C's Object-Oriented Descriptions for XML, O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Walmsley, P., 2007. XQuery, O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Walsh, N. & Muellner, L., 1999. DocBook: The Definitive Guide Pap/Cdr., O'Reilly Media, Inc.