Michael Kay is the author of the "XSLT Programmer's Reference" from Wrox Press, the standard reference work on XSLT, as well as many other best-selling XML books. He is also the editor of the W3C XSLT...

This W3C Recommendation provides the standardized syntax for using an xml- stylesheet processing instruction to associate an XML document with an XSL or CSS stylesheet.... [Jun. 29, 1999]

Guidelines for web authoring tool developers to assist in the design of authoring tools that produce accessible Web content and in the creation of an accessible authoring interface. Proposed method... [Feb. 3, 2000]

A web-based tool that analyzes web pages for their accessibility to people with disabilities, created and maintained as a public service by the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST), a not-fo... [May. 16, 2000]

Canonical XML is a syntax designed to encode the logical structure of XML documents for the purpose of comparing equivalency between two XML documents.... [Mar. 15, 2001]

Excerpted from "Abstract": "This document specifies level 1 of the Cascading Style Sheet mechanism (CSS1). CSS1 is a simple style sheet mechanism that allows authors and... [Jan. 11, 1999]

Summary: This specification defines Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 (CSS2). CSS2 is a style sheet language that allows authors and users to attach style (e.g., fonts, spacing, and aural cues) to str... [May. 12, 1998]

Decryption Transform for XML Signature provides a decryption transform mechanism that allows decryption and verification of a signature that has itself been encrypted in an XML document. This could ... [Oct. 3, 2002]

Abstract: "This specification defines the Document Object Model Level 1, a platform- and language-neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content, s... [Oct. 1, 1998]

Excerpted from the "Status of this Document" section: " This specification is now in the Candidate Recommendation phase. This means the specification is stable, and there will be ... [Nov. 13, 2000]

Excerpted from "Abstract": "Avoiding the lost update problem has been a notorious challenge when editing documents remotely on the Web using HTTP/1.0. While WebDAV provides an exte... [May. 10, 1999]

This is an update to the original XML v. 1.0 Specification originally published February 10, 1998. Various errors have been "fixed" and numerous annotations and errata have been added/integrate to he... [Oct. 6, 2000]

FLWOR stands for "For, Let, Where, Order by, and Return" - it's an important XQuery construct for working with XML data in XQuery. The XQuery FLWOR tutorial is written by Dr. Michael Kay and covers th...

Abstract: "This specification defines the HyperText Markup Language (HTML), version 4.0, the publishing language of the World Wide Web. In addition to the text, multimedia, and hyperlink features of... [Apr. 24, 1998]

MathML is an XML application for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content. The goal of MathML is to enable mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the... [Feb. 21, 2001]

This Recommendation is part of the modularized approach for specifying the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) language, which uses XML syntax to define resolution-independent 2D graphics and animation. ... [Jan. 14, 2003]

This Recommendation specifies the abstract modularization of XHTML 1.0 that works with the Building XHTML Modules and XHTML 1.1 - Module-based XHTML specifications.... [Apr. 10, 2001]

XML namespaces provide a simple method for qualifying element and attribute names used in XML documents. This is accomplished by associating a particular tag set by associating a prefix with a URI re... [Jan. 14, 1999]

Abstract: "The W3C Digital Signature Working Group ("DSig") proposes a standard format for making digitally-signed, machine-readable assertions about a particular information resource. PICS 1.1 labe... [May. 27, 1998]

This document is the mother document for P3P's three sibling sections: P3P Syntax Specification, Harmonized Vocabulary Specification, and Base Data Set Specification.... [Apr. 16, 2002]

The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a foundation for processing metadata that provides interoperability between applications that exchange machine-understandable information on the Web. RDF ... [Feb. 22, 1999]

The Ruby specification extends XHTML to support "ruby text". Ruby text is a run of text that appears in the vacinity of another run of text, called "base text". Ruby text serves as either a pronou... [May. 31, 2001]

SVG is a language for using XML to describe two-dimensional vector graphic shapes (defined in the specification as "paths consisting of straightlines and curves"), images and text. Because SVG drawin... [Sep. 5, 2001]

This Recommendation is part of the modularized approach for specifying the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) language. In addition to providing a modularization of SVG, this document provides errata fo... [Jan. 14, 2003]

Abstract: "This document specifies version 1 of the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 1.0, pronounced "smile"). SMIL allows integrating a set of independent multimedia objects into ... [Jun. 15, 1998]

Excerpted from "Status of this Document" and "Introduction" sections: "Comments during the SMIL review period suggested that the relationship between SMIL and CSS should be more clearly ... [Aug. 8, 1998]

This specification describes a framework and a set of base elements for providing animation functionality to XML documents. The SYMM (Synchronized Multimedia) and SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) worki... [Sep. 5, 2001]

Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language 2.0 (SMIL 2.0) is an XML-based language that allows authors to describe the temporal behavior of a multimedia presentation, associate hyperlinks with med... [Aug. 9, 2001]

Abstract: "These guidelines explain how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities. The guidelines are intended for all Web content developers (page authors and si... [May. 5, 1999]

Excerpted from "Abstract": "CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile) has been an ISO standard for vector and composite vector/raster picture definition since 1987. It has been a registered MIME type since 19... [Jan. 21, 1999]

Excerpted from "Abstract": "This specification defines XHTML 1.0, a reformulation of HTML 4 as an XML 1.0 application, and three DTDs corresponding to the ones defined by HTML 4. The semant... [Jan. 26, 2000]

This specification defines a new XHTML document type that is based solely upon the module framework defined in the Building XHTML Modules specification with the modules defined in the Modula... [May. 31, 2001]

The XHTML Basic specification defines a subset of XHTML 1.1 as an XHTML module document type, consisting of a minimal set of features (text, hyperlinks, forms, tables, images, and metadata) intended p... [Dec. 19, 2000]

The XLink specification defines constructs that describe links between objects. These constructs may be inserted into either XML DTDs or XML document instances. The behavior of these links can resem... [Jun. 27, 2001]

The xml:base attribute defined in this specification provides an XML document with the same functionality of HTML's BASE element (which is used to specify the base URI to be used when resolving a docu... [Jun. 27, 2001]

The XML Encryption Syntax and Processing Candidate Recommendation describes the syntax for encryption of XML, processing rules for encryption and decryption, message authentication and algorithms use... [Oct. 3, 2002]

Excerpted from the "Introduction": "An XML document's information set consists of two or more information items (the information set for any well-formed XML document will contain ... [Oct. 24, 2001]

Excerpted from "Introduction": "The W3C's XML 1.0 Recommendation [XML] describes the physical representation of XML documents. We expect, however, that XML-based standards will usually be ... [Feb. 18, 1999]

The XPath Recommendation is a joint work representing the combined efforts of the XSL Working Group and the XML Linking Working Group. XPath was created in order to provide a common syntax and semant... [Nov. 16, 1999]

This is a non-normative document intended to provide an easily readable description of the XML Schema facilities in order to provide a quick understanding of how to create XML schemas using... [May. 2, 2001]

This document proposes facilities for describing the structure and constraining the contents of XML 1.0 documents. The schema language, which is itself represented in XML 1.0, provides a superset of t... [May. 2, 2001]

Excerpted from "Abstract": "This document specifies a language for defining datatypes to be used in XML Schemas and possibly elsewhere."... [May. 2, 2001]

XML-DEV is is an open, un-moderated email discussion list covering all facets of XML development. Over the years it has been a popular forum for the development of emerging XML specifications and XM...

This specification provides a mechanism for applying digital signatures to XML documents and other Internet resources and encoding those signatures as XML. The proposed structure allows for both embed... [Feb. 12, 2002]

XSLT (XSL Transformation Language) is a language used to "transform" (or reconstruct the structure of) the data structures contained within XML documents. Although XSLT was also designed to be used i... [Nov. 16, 1999]