This site was produced from ANT, XML, XSL, and CSS. It was inspired from the working of Ilkka Rinne. You can review his work at http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj/papintappajat/making_of.html. It appears that apache is doing something of the sort at http://cocoon.apache.org/lenya/project/index.html

For anyone choosing to develop anything new, you should be utilizing xml technology. The uniformity that XML imposes on information exchange forces developers to create regularized documents that lead to a very flexible product.

Invaluable resources have helped us continually improve our products. Some of the ones listed below have been providing assistance for years, other represent newer ideas.

If you are to gain control of your look of your documents, Dave Raggatt's CSS tutorial, http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/Style.html, is a great place for anyone to start. It contains other links throughout the guide to help you better understand related technology.

After gaining better control of your documents through CSS, you then will want to start gaining better control of the rest of the look and feel of your site or presentation or document. XSLT, http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt, is the solution. It is another W3C recommendation is accepted throughout the development community. Reading through this recommendation can be quite weighty, so recommend something lighter to get started. This would be the XSL Tutorial at http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/. If you have not yet discovered the w3schools they contain a wealth of how to get started information. If, after looking over the tutorial, and if the W3C recommendation is still a bit much to handle, then go and get yourself XSLT by Doug Tidwell, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. This book is split nicely between tutorials and documentation / specification. I have found it to be the one book that is currently always open on my desk.

Once note about XSL. If you do start looking at and working with the XSL, you will soon find yourself diving into other related technologies; XPath, XPointer, XLink, etc. Some things are necessary to learn, others you just need to glean enough information to make it work. The more you can soak up the better!

HTML Pocket Reference by O'Reilly is so nice to have with in arm's reach. I recommend it as the one book needed to aid in HTML. If you are new to HTML, then I say start that the W3 Schools, http://www.w3schools.com, and go from there. However if you are just starting one tool that you should use from the get go is Tidy, http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/. Once again Mr. Raggett comes through making the world a better place. Maybe that's a bit overstated, but it's a neater place... that is for sure. If you learn how to use Tidy from the start, you will always be grading or checking your HTML pages. Learning faster and producing very clean code.

XML Information Set (Infoset),spec.

An XSL accelerator? http://www.datapower.com/products/xa35.html