[wplug] Learning XML technologies

[Patrick Wagstrom]

The best resource I've found for this sort of stuff is Zvon.org.
They've got tutorials and a web enabled work space where you can play
around with XSLT, XPath, and XQuery.  Quite nice stuff and it's what I
used to learn XSLT.

If you're looking for a programming API to use, I recommend libxml2.
It's got bindings for most languages and is really fast, and in my
opinion easier to understand than SAX and DOM parsing (the two prominent
XML processing methods).  The only downside is that the python bindings
require a bit of memory management.  How terribly un-pythonic.

--Patrick

On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 22:29 -0500, David Ostroske wrote:
> I've got a pretty bland question. I hope somebody can stomach to answer it.
> 
> I'm wanting to familiarize myself with some of the more popular XML
> standards... XML Schema, XSLT, XPath, XQuery, the DOM, etc. What sort
> of freely-available tools do you suggest that I work with to build up
> my skills?
> 
> I don't normally do development on Linux systems. I work on database
> applications during the day (I work at an all-MS shop; I have no
> choice), and I have run and/or am running Red Hat 6-9 and Fedora Core
> 1-2 at home. And I use both vi and Emacs (yes, it's my favorite!) on
> my home system.
> 
> Any advice?