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What this section is for ?

To give you a list of web site that you have to visit at least once in your life.

To be honest with you I did not even know the existence of the W3C. I found out when I did my MSc and it is one of the reasons I chose a topic related to XML for my dissertation project.

World Wide Web Consortium

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) both develops and promotes standard technologies for the Web. On the W3C Web site, you will find information about Web technologies such as the HyperText Markup Language (HTML), the Extensible Markup Language (XML), the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)...

• W3C Main Page
• HTML 4.01 Specification to write standard web page
• CSS Home Page Cascading Style Sheets is used to add style to a web document. You should try to avoid formatting instruction in your html and do it with CSS.
• XML Specification
• XSLT Specification a language for transforming XML.
• XSL-FO Specification an XML vocabulary for specifying formatting semantics.
• XPath Specification an expression language used by XSLT to access or refer to parts of an XML document.
• SVG is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics and graphical applications in XML.

Validation

• HTML/XHTML Validator checks that your HTML/XHTML respects the specification
• XML Schema & XML Validator checks for XML well-formedness or checks validity of XML Schema or validate XML against an XML SChema
• CSS validator

CSS is cool

• CSS Zen Garden A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design. (Available in many language)
• CSS Zen Garden Ressource Guide

French web site for CSS

• Alsacréations Creating web site, lessons, tutorials CSS and XHTML
• Open Web Group Articles, tutorials to make web pages in respect to W3C recommendations