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<title>Resources</title>
<indexterm id="infoappd" class="startofrange"><primary>XML</primary>
  <secondary>resources, reference</secondary></indexterm>
<indexterm id="SGMLinfoappc" class="startofrange"><primary>SGML</primary>
  <secondary>resources, reference</secondary></indexterm>

<para>The quantity of information about &SGML; and &XML; is growing
on a daily basis.  This appendix strives to provide both a
complete bibliography of the references mentioned explicitly in
this book, and a sampling of resources for additional
information about DocBook and about &SGML; and &XML; in general.
Although not all of these resources are focused specifically on
DocBook, they still provide helpful information for DocBook
users.</para>

<sect1 id="latestver">
<title>Latest Versions of DocBook</title>
<para>As of July 1998, responsibility for the advancement and maintenance
of the DocBook &DTD; has been transferred from the Davenport Group, which originated
it, to the DocBook Technical Committee of <acronym>OASIS</acronym> (Organization for the Advancement
of Structured Information Standards) at <ulink url="http://www.oasis-open.org/">
http://www.oasis-open.org/</ulink>.</para>

<para>
The latest releases of DocBook can be obtained from the official DocBook
home page at <ulink url="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/">
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/</ulink>.
</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="res-resources">
<title>Resources for Resources</title>
<para>Here's where to find pointers to the subjects you want to find.</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term>The Most Recent Version of This Book</term>
<listitem><para>
The most recent online version of this book can be found at
<ulink url="http://docbook.org/">http://docbook.org/</ulink>.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>The Most Recent Version of DocBook</term>
<listitem><para>
The most recent version of DocBook, and the most recent information
about the &DTD;, can be found at the DocBook home page:
<ulink url="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/">http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/</ulink>.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>Robin Cover's &SGML;/&XML; Web page</term>
<listitem>
<para>Easily the largest and most up-to-date list of &SGML;/&XML; resources; can be found at <ulink url="http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/">http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><systemitem role="newsgroup">comp.text.sgml</systemitem>
and <systemitem role="newsgroup">comp.text.xml</systemitem></term>
<listitem>
<para><acronym>USENET</acronym> newsgroups devoted to &SGML; and &XML; issues.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><acronym>FAQ</acronym>s</term>
<listitem>
<para>For pointers to several &SGML; <acronym>FAQ</acronym>s, see 
<ulink url="http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/general.html#faq">http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/general.html#faq</ulink>. 
The &XML; <acronym>FAQ</acronym> is
available at <ulink url="http://www.ucc.ie/xml">http://www.ucc.ie/xml</ulink>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><ulink url="http://www.xml.com/">&XML;.com</ulink></term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="http://www.xml.com/">&XML;.com</ulink>, run jointly
by Songline Studios and Seybold, is a site devoted to making &XML;
accessible.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="res-intro">
<title>Introductory Material on the Web</title>
<para>These documents provide a good background for a better understanding of
&SGML; and &XML;.</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term>A Gentle Introduction to &SGML;</term>
<listitem>
<para>A useful and simple document available in its original form at <ulink
url="http://www-tei.uic.edu/orgs/tei/sgml/teip3sg/index.html">http://www-tei.uic.edu/orgs/tei/sgml/teip3sg/index.html
</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>A Technical Introduction to &XML;</term>
<listitem>
<para>A close look at the ins-and-outs of &XML; is available at <ulink url="http://nwalsh.com/docs/articles/xml/">
http://nwalsh.com/docs/articles/xml/</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect1>

<sect1 id="res-web">
<title>References and Technical Notes <?lb?>on the Web</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term>Entity Management</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="http://www.oasis-open.org/html/a401.htm"><acronym>OASIS</acronym> Technical
Resolution 9401:1997 (Amendment 2 to <acronym>TR</acronym> 9401)</ulink>.</para>
<para>
This document describes <acronym>OASIS</acronym> catalog files.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>The &SGML; Declaration</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/wlw11.html">The &SGML; Declaration,</ulink> by Wayne Wholer.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>Table Interoperability: Issues for the &CALS; Table Model
</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="http://www.oasis-open.org/html/a501.htm"><acronym>OASIS</acronym>
Technical Research Paper 9501:1995</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>Exchange Table Model Document Type Definition</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="http://www.oasis-open.org/html/a503.htm"><acronym>OASIS</acronym>
Technical Resolution <acronym>TR</acronym> 9503:1995</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="calsdtd"><term>&CALS; Table Model Document Type Definition</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="http://www.oasis-open.org/html/a502.htm"><acronym>OASIS</acronym>
Technical Memorandum <acronym>TM</acronym> 9502:1995</ulink></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="calsxmldtd"><term>XML Exchange Table Model Document Type Definition</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="http://www.oasis-open-org/html/a901.htm">OASIS
Technical Memorandum TM 9901:1999</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect1>

<sect1 id="res-rfc">
<title>Internet <acronym>RFC</acronym>s</title>
<para>
<acronym>RFC</acronym>s (<quote>Request for Comments</quote>) are standards documents
produced by the Internet Engineering Task Force (<acronym>IETF</acronym>).
</para>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term><ulink url="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc1630.html"><acronym>RFC</acronym> 1630</ulink></term>
<listitem>
<para>Universal Resource Identifiers in <acronym>WWW</acronym>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><ulink url="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc1736.html"><acronym>RFC</acronym> 1736</ulink></term>
<listitem>
<para>Functional recommendations for Internet Resource Locators.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><ulink url="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc1737.html"><acronym>RFC</acronym> 1737</ulink></term>
<listitem>
<para>Functional requirements for Uniform Resource Names.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><ulink url="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc1738.html"><acronym>RFC</acronym> 1738</ulink></term>
<listitem>
<para>Uniform Resource Locators (<acronym>URL</acronym>).</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><ulink url="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc3066.html"><acronym>RFC</acronym> 3066</ulink></term>
<listitem>
<para>Tags for the identification of languages</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect1>

<sect1 id="res-spec">
<title>Specifications</title>
<para>Here are pointers to the specifications.</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term><ulink url="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml">The &XML; Specification
</ulink></term>
<listitem>
<para>The <acronym>W3C</acronym> technical recommendation that defines &XML; 1.0.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><ulink url="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/">Namespaces
in &XML;</ulink></term>
<listitem>
<para>The <acronym>W3C</acronym> technical recommendation that defines &XML; namespaces.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><ulink url="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-MathML/">Mathematical
Markup Language (MathML) 1.0 Specification</ulink></term>
<listitem>
<para>The <acronym>W3C</acronym> technical recommendation that defines MathML, an &XML;
representation of mathematical equations.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><ulink url="http://www.unicode.org/unicode/uni2book/u2.html">
The Unicode Standard, Version 2.0</ulink></term>
<listitem>
<para>The Unicode standard.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><ulink url="http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr8.html">
Unicode Technical Report #8</ulink></term>
<listitem>
<para>Version 2.1 of the Unicode standard.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><ulink url="http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/">
Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1: Reference Description</ulink></term>
<listitem>
<para>Version 1.1 of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative's Metadata Element
Set.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><ulink url="http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/">
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names</ulink></term>
<listitem>
<para>A controlled vocabulary of geographic place names.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

</variablelist>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="res-books">
<title>Books and Printed Resources</title>
<para>There are also a number of books worth checking out:</para>
<bibliography>
<biblioentry id="maler96">
	<title>Developing &SGML; &DTD;s</title>
	<subtitle>From Text to Model to Markup</subtitle>
	<authorgroup>
	  <author>
	    <firstname>Eve</firstname>
	    <surname>Maler</surname>
	  </author>
	  <author>
	    <firstname>Jeanne</firstname>
	    <surname>El Andaloussi</surname>
	  </author>
	</authorgroup>
	<isbn>0-13-309881-8</isbn>
	<publisher>
	  <publishername>Prentice-Hall PTR</publishername>
	  <address>
	    <city>Upper Saddle River</city>
	    <state>New Jersey</state>
	  </address>
	</publisher>
	<pubdate>1996</pubdate>
</biblioentry>
<biblioentry>
	<title>Practical &SGML;</title>
	<authorgroup>
	  <author>
	    <firstname>Erik</firstname>
	    <surname>van Herwijnen</surname>
	  </author>
	</authorgroup>
	<edition>2</edition>
	<isbn>0-7923-9434-8</isbn>
	<publisher>
	  <publishername>Kluwer Academic Press</publishername>
	</publisher>
	<pubdate>1994</pubdate>
	<bibliomisc>An introductory book, but not a simple one.</bibliomisc>
</biblioentry>
<biblioentry>
	<title>The &SGML; Handbook</title>
	<authorgroup>
	  <author>
	    <firstname>Charles</firstname>
	    <surname>Goldfarb</surname>
	  </author>
	  <author>
	    <firstname>Yuri</firstname>
	    <surname>Rubinksy</surname>
	  </author>
	</authorgroup>
	<isbn>0-7923-9434-8</isbn>
	<pubdate>1991</pubdate>
	<publisher>
	  <publishername>Oxford University Press</publishername>
	</publisher>
	<bibliomisc>A reference book by the author of the &SGML; <acronym>ISO</acronym> Standard.</bibliomisc>
</biblioentry>
<biblioentry>
   <title>SGML: an author's guide to the Standard Generalized Markup Language</title>
   <authorgroup>
     <author>
      <firstname>Martin</firstname>
      <surname>Bryan</surname>
     </author>
   </authorgroup>
   <isbn>0-201-17535-5</isbn>
   <pubdate>1988</pubdate>
   <publisher>
      <publishername>Addison-Wesley Publishing Company</publishername>
   </publisher>
 </biblioentry>
<biblioentry>
	<title>$GML: The Billion Dollar Secret</title>
	<authorgroup>
	  <author>
	    <firstname>Chet</firstname>
	    <surname>Ensign</surname>
	  </author>
	</authorgroup>
	<isbn>0-13-226705-5</isbn>
	<pubdate>1998</pubdate>
	<publisher>
	  <publishername>Prentice Hall</publishername>
	</publisher>
	<bibliomisc>Effective &SGML; evangelism.</bibliomisc>
</biblioentry>
<biblioentry>
	<title>Creating Documents with &XML;</title>
	<authorgroup>
	  <author>
	    <firstname>Chris</firstname>
	    <surname>Maden</surname>
	  </author>
	</authorgroup>
	<isbn>1-56592-518-1</isbn>
	<pubdate>1999</pubdate>
	<publisher>
	  <publishername>O'Reilly &amp; Associates</publishername>
	</publisher>
	<bibliomisc>An introductory book about &XML;.</bibliomisc>
</biblioentry>
<biblioentry>
	<title>&XML;: A Primer</title>
	<authorgroup>
	  <author>
	    <firstname>Simon</firstname>
	    <surname>St. Laurent</surname>
	  </author>
	</authorgroup>
	<isbn>1-5582-8592-X</isbn>
	<pubdate>1998</pubdate>
	<publisher>
	  <publishername>MIS:Press/IDG Books Worldwide</publishername>
	</publisher>
	<bibliomisc>Another introductory book about &XML;.</bibliomisc>
</biblioentry>
<biblioentry>
    <title>Understanding SGML and XML Tools</title>
    <authorgroup>
       <author>
         <firstname>Peter</firstname>
         <surname>Flynn</surname>
       </author>
     </authorgroup>
     <isbn>0-7923-8169-6</isbn>
     <pubdate>1998</pubdate>
     <publisher>
       <publishername>Kluwer Academic Publishers</publishername>
     </publisher>
<bibliomisc>The standard work on SGML/XML software.</bibliomisc>
</biblioentry>
 <biblioentry>
   <title>The LaTeX Web Companion</title>
   <subtitle>Integrating TeX, HTML, and XML</subtitle>
   <authorgroup>
      <author><firstname>Michel</firstname><surname>Goosens</surname></author>
      <author><firstname>Sebastian</firstname><surname>Rahtz</surname></author>
   </authorgroup>
   <isbn>0-201-43311-7</isbn>
   <pubdate>1999</pubdate>
   <publisher>
     <publishername>Addison-Wesley Publishing Company</publishername>
   </publisher>
 </biblioentry>
</bibliography>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="res-tools">
<title>&SGML;/&XML; Tools</title>
<para>An attempt to provide a detailed description of all of the &SGML;/&XML;
tools available is outside the scope of this book.
</para>
<para>
For a list of recent
of &SGML; tools, check out Robin Cover's &SGML;/&XML; page at <acronym>OASIS</acronym>: <ulink url="http://www.oasis-open.org/cover">
http://www.oasis-open.org/cover</ulink>.
</para>
<para>For a list of &XML; tools,
check out &XML;.com: <ulink url="http://www.xml.com/">http://www.xml.com/</ulink>.
</para>
</sect1>
</appendix>

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