Date: Oct. 2, 2002
Link: http://monasticxml.org/
Source Author or Organization: Simon St.Laurent

The Monastic XML site offers a guide interpreting "what XML is good at" from Simon St.Laurent, author of several books (including XML: A Primer, XML Elements of Style, Building XML Applications, Cookies, Sharing Bandwidth, Programming Web Services with XML-RPC and Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical) and contributor to xmlhack and XML.com. MonasticXML.org advocates a detail-oriented, conservative discipline for coders that takes advantage of the main strengths of XML to save time and effort in the long run. Among the topics covered are the foundation of markup, optimal use of XML Namespaces, structured naming systems, approaching information, costs of optimizing markup for processing, localization issues and explicit data.