Cover Pages

Website URL: http://xml.coverpages.org/xml.html

The Cover Pages, edited by Robin Cover is a complete online near portal and reference website on the XML vocabularies, the XML family of markup language standards and related information standards. The web site provides reference material, information on compatible technologies and other descriptive mark up languages. Moreover it also provides quite a broad and all encompassing information on XML implementation across a broad range of Industries, academia and government.

The website acts as a repository of information regarding mark up languages and this information is always available on the website much like in an archive. Most of the information is compiled from publicly available or shared information updated by various participants or actors in the Markup technology domain.

From an editorial perspective the website is independent and quite critical of the XML path where it needs to be and does not always endorse the views that are seen as standards in the XML industry.

The website is fairly vast and covers a broad range of Mark up Technology topics. Overall this website has a lot of depth in the information it holds and visitors can expect information on standards in descriptive markup language and applications. These can be defined in the purview of ontology, object modeling, authority lists, conceptual modeling, semantic nets and document production systems.

Topics covered or referenced to (via Links to the official or legal repositories) in this website includes but is not limited to XML Overview, W3C Adjunct Specifications, Proposed Applications and Industry Initiatives, Articles/Papers: Current Chronological Listing, Press Releases, SAX - Simple API for XML, XML and Literate Programming, XML and Compression, XML and Perl, XML and Python, XML in Mozilla, XML in MS Internet Explorer, Java API for XML Parsing (JAXP), Java Project X [Sun XML Library], Xapi-J - A Standardized XML API in Java.

Other Topics of Interest covered in the website include XML Accessibility, XML/SGML and Namespaces, XML and/versus SGML, XML and HTML, XML and Query Languages, XML/SGML Name Registration, Resource Description and Classification.