Further Reading

The W3C organization is currently working on a draft of the DOM Level 3 Core to include support for an abstract modeling schema and I/O serialization. Check out the most recent draft at http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-DOM-Level-3-ASLS-20020409. The approved standard—DOM Level 2 Core—is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2.

Relevant information about XML standards is available from the W3C Web site, at http://www.w3.org. If you want to learn more about the SAX specification, look at the new Web site for the SAX project, at http://www.saxproject.org.

A lot of useful developer-oriented documentation about XML is available on the Web sites of the companies that support XML. In addition to the Microsoft Web site (http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/xml), check out the Intel Developer Services Web site (http://www.cedar.intel.com). In particular, you’ll find an essential guide to XML in the .NET Framework: http://www.cedar.intel.com/media/pdf/dotnet/net_jumpstart.pdf.

Finally, if you just want a good, all-encompassing book about XML programming, I heartily recommend the Microsoft Press Core Reference book XML Programming (http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/4798.asp), by R. Allen Wyke, Sultan Rehman, and Brad Leupen (Microsoft Press, 2002). For a more general look into XML as a unifying technology, Essential XML: Beyond Markup (Addison Wesley, 2000), by Don Box, Aaron Skonnard, and John Lam, is still one of the best books available.