What is the best guide to learn XML

Question

I'm learning XML, currently of Wikibooks, but that is kinda huge and not oversee-able...

anybody know a better place?

Answer 1

Depends on your background and what you already know.

I found this a useful book though: http://www.ineasysteps.com/books/details/?1840781246

Answer 2

W3Schools are generally good for this type of stuff.

Answer 3

If you are looking for a book, O'Reilly has a few XML books. Since I had picked up XML on the job, I just went with XML in a Nutshell for use as a reference. You might be able to use them to find a good tutorial book on XML for a beginner like Learning XML, if that's what you are looking for.

Answer 4

Even though there are plenty of tutorials about XML , I agree with Galwegian . I learned XML from W3Schools.

Answer 5

I found Tim Bray's Annotated XML Specification helpful.

Answer 6

zvon.org has good tutorials on many xml technologies

Answer 7

I am not sure if you are building web applications without the need for JavaScript, but if you are I have found the wikibooks very helpful:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/XQuery http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/XForms

The XQuery book uses the eXist-db.org XML database which I have found to be a great learning tool.

• Dan

Answer 8

I think www.w3schools.com is a really good place to start learning XML