Data Formats

Program to translate PostScript and PDF files into other vector graphics formats.

"Eventually, with this pressure, EVERYONE is going to ditch GIF in favor of PNG. Web folks will stop asking image software vendors to support GIFs, and the software guys won't want to pay the license fees so they'll just stop supporting GIF."

A Java-based VRML optimization tool.

This webring is for anyone interested in 3D graphics, modeling, animation, rendering, or web programming

Unlike a simple list of links, the VRML Ring will provide a guided tour of the VR websites linked together

A company that offers server-side software for rendering SVG and XSL-FO. Describes its products with whitepapers, presentations and screenshots.

Short, focused tutorial that concentrates on the needs of the absolute beginner.

Offers html help, tutorials, downloads, and source code.

Covers many basic tags in an intuitive, hands on approach. Examples and a practice HTML tester are included.

Free HTML programming and Web site design tutorial ideal for beginners.

A free, interactive HTML tutorial that lets you dynamically practice coding HTML while you're learning.

A technical description of HTML 4.0's meta element for metadata.

Section describing meta tags. Discusses purposes, typical rendering, basic syntax, possible attributes, notes, and links to further references.

Creates title tags, description and keyword codes. Has a short illustration of where to put them on a page. Includes a meta tag analyzer and multiple search engine submission tool.

Creates tags like keyword, description, title, robot, language, revisit, abstract, author, copyright, distribution, expires. Includes a multiple submit tool.

World Wide Web Consortium validator, maintained at W3C by W3C staff and collaborators. Checks the markup validity of Web documents in HTML, XHTML, SMIL and MathML.

Produces easy to read HTML error messages. Can validate one page or a batch of pages at one time.

Portal to several validators and URL analyzers.

A W3C specification for a minimal subset of Modular XHTML.

Tools for editing, generating and testing XPath 1.0 and XPath 2.0 expressions.

A small footprint XPath syntax decoder, written in C++.

Describes the values and attributes that the Mozilla XPToolkit widgets support, as well as the genealogy and structure of valid XUL documents.

Open source reference implementation at Source Forge. News, CVS access, documentation and bug database available. Source released under Apache Software License.

Short article by Simon St. Laurent, that includes a brief review of the new changes to the XForms model.

This specification defines an Abstract Model of XML Protocol. An abstract model is one way to establish a consistent set of concepts. and is a tool for the description of complex behaviour. (W3C Working Draft 20 February 2003)

Design principles and requirements for the Blueberry Revision of the XML 1.0 Recommendation, solely to address character set issues. (W3C Working Draft 21 September 2001)

A manual/workbook about XML available in multiple formats.

FAQs maintained by Peter Flynn, part of the W3C's XML special interest group.

Collection of tools to make enable XML applications to interchange data easier. Includes APEX and ATTS.

Professional XML editor and validator with XSLT / XQuery editors, debuggers, and profilers. [Commercial]

Editor for large files. Provides tree view, validation and syntax checking. Supports XPATH 1.0 Query and XSL transformation. [Commercial]

Chapter from the book XML Pocket Consultant introducing DTDs.

Provides a variety of different layouts for download.

Multi-column layouts reduced to their essential code, with the source code displayed on the same page.

CSS tutorial with examples, quizzes, references, and an editor.

A collection of lessons on CSS, from an introduction to style sheet code to text formatting, backgrounds, layout and positioning.

Easy to follow tutorials that teach novices the basics.

Tutorials on making perfect style sheets, lengths, fonts, margins, colors, links, as well as information on browser compatibility.

Describes a cross-browser way for site authors to dynamically switch between multiple style sheets.

Details of the Acrobat and PageMaker Plug-ins, and custom development services available.

PDF creator and converter software tools, offering dynamic generation of PDF documents, form filling, and conversion.

Software to allow editing of protected PDF files. Commercial software, with free trial available.

A management and development environment for the Zope application server.

JavaScript debugger extension for Mozilla and Netscape browsers.

XUL applications/utilities for Mozilla (and Netscape 7). They are based on the specification of Mozilla Nightly Trunk. Works on Netscape 7.0, Mozilla 1.0, Phoenix 0.5, or later.

Some helpful but uncommon XSL tips.

Explains how to develop stylesheets for XML to XSL-FO transformation, provides sample XSL-FO files and stylesheets for XHTML to XSL-FO, XBRL to XSL-FO.

Jeni Tennison is a very active XSLT community member. This page is her homepage for her many XSLT activities. With 25 tutorials/articles and 2 utilities for visitors.

Utilities and downloads for XSLT and related developers.

The purpose of examplotron is to use instance documents as a lightweight schema language-- eventually adding the information needed to guide a validator in the sample documents.