Christopher Taylor: XML Tools and Resources

Editors

• XMLBuddy is an free, open-source XML editor for the Eclipse IDE. It can validate and provide tag completion against a DTD
• <oxygen/> is a commercial XML editor that comes as a stand-alone tool or as an Eclipse plugin. It is pretty advanced and supports both DTD and XML Schema

XML Resources

• W3C WSDL Definition [Web Services Description Language (WSDL)]
• w3schools WDSL Tutorial

XSL Resources

• How to mix DOCTYPE and DTD's with XSL [Dave Pawson's Homepage]
• There is no normative DTD for XSLT, because DTD isn't flexible enough to fully constrain XSLT. However, if you want to use tag completion in a DTD aware XML editor, here is a DTD you can use [A DTD for XSLT stylesheets][via C. M. Sperberg-McQueen]
• A great XSL tutorial with tons of examples [ZVON XSL Tutorial]
• W3C Recommendations [XSL Transformations (XSLT)]
• [XSLT Functions] You need to functions to write any interesting conditionals
• Another general tutorial of XSL [W3Schools XSL Tutorial]. This site also has other XML resources

DTD, Schema and NR-Relax Resources

Data Binding with Java

• Castor is probably my first choice. There are several good articles that give a good overview of how it works [Data binding with Castor].
• CastorWiki has some nice suplementary info. I especially like the ideas behind some of spin-off projects [RelatedProjects]
• Enhydra's Zeus
• JAXB - Sun's attempt at a standard
• ArBorealis - a little out there, but has potential