| Chinese XML FAQ (in English): FAQ about Chinese document encodings, and how they relate to XML. Also includes links and software. |
| Entry-Level Unicode for XML: A "just enough education to perform" guide to Unicode and ISO 10646 for authors of XML parsers and other software that processes XML. |
| Expressing Simple Dublin Core in RDF/XML: Explains how to encode the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set V1.1 (DCMES) in XML, provides a DTD to validate the documents and describes a method to link them from web pages. |
| History of Unicode Standard(s): What document(s) define(d) the Unicode standard? This is a complete history of the Unicode standard from 1.0 to a preview of the (future) 3.0 and 4.0 versions to come. |
| ISO 8859 Alphabet Soup: A commented graphical overview of the ISO 8859 character sets by Roman Czyborra. |
| MSDN: How to Encode XML Data: Article explaining how character encoding works and specifically how it works in XML and the MSXML DOM. |
| The Unicode Consortium: The official Unicode web site provides extensive information and resources for programmers, implementers and others involved in computer globalization work. |
| W3Schools.com: XML Encoding: XML documents can contain foreign characters like Norwegian æøå, or French êèé. To let your XML parser understand these characters, you should save your XML documents as Unicode. |
| What ASN.1 can offer to XML: XML Encoding Rules for Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) and the ASN.1 Markup Language [ITU-T Rec. X.693 | ISO/IEC 8825-4]. |
| XER - XML Encoding Rules: Idea to standardize rules that would allow for information described in ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation) to be carried in XML. |