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XML and the Second-Generation Web - XML Impact on Web 2.0 - the 2nd Gen WWW.
The Next Web? article about XML and Webservices in todays internet. Written by Simon St. Laurent, March 2006.
XML Tutorial by Mike J. Brown - A reintroduction to XML with an emphasis on character encoding
Character entity references in HTML 4 for proper XML HTML character entity encoding (use Unicode value, not the ASCII one). More information regarding encoding can be found at this discussion.

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Resources and References to XML, XSL, XSLT and XPath

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XML Specification at W3C - XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language
XML.com Comprehensive XML Resources Portal by O'Reilley
Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) an Introduction to XSL, XSLT (XSL Transformation) and XPath by Robin Cover and tons of references, news articles and resources to everything related to XSL.
XSL Specifications at W3C - XSL stand for Extensible Stylesheet Language

YAML - data serialization format (XML) designed for configuration settings, log files, Internet messaging and filtering current specs (PDF)

XML Advice at XMLAdvice.com - The XML Developer Community and Forums
XML Developer Center at Microsoft MSDN

XML Downloads for building XML applications using Microsoft technologies at the Microsoft XML Developer Center.
XML Schema Validator validate XML documents such as XHTML against the appropriate schemas. You can validate XML documents by URL, by file upload or by direct input. Furthermore, you can validate fragments of XML documents. You can easily validate the page that is currently displayed in your browser with a provided bookmarklet.

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XML, XSLT, XPath, XQuery Books

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	XML The Complete Reference by Heather Williamson You can get it fairly cheap if you buy it used. That was what I did.		XSLT (2nd Ed.) Programmer's Reference (Programmer to Programmer) by Michael Kay Bargain
	XSLT 2.0 (3rd ed) (Programmer's Reference) (Programmer to Programmer) by Michael Kay		XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference (Programmer to Programmer) by Michael Kay
	XQuery: The XML Query Language by Michael Brundage For XML lookup querys and quick access of XML content.		Querying XML, : XQuery, XPath, and SQL/XML in context written by Jim Melton and Stephen Buxton
	XSLT Cookbook Second Edition by Sal Mangano To get the basics of XML manipulation. I prefer Michael Kay's book to XSLT and consider this one as complimentary.		Unicode Explained by Jukka Korpela Very helpful when it comes to the encoding and decoding of content for XML and XHTML or XSLT. It is pretty comprehensive.