Over the period January to September 2001 the WEDIG meetings will focus on XML development. The books that will be discussed are: "Step by Step XML" by Michael Young published by Microsoft Press "XSLT Programmer's Reference" by Michael Kay published by O'Reilly Press Our hosts are: Bruce Troutman Jelk Cabanis Joe Gotthelf Chris Grady Part 1 -- Getting Started February Chapter 1 (SBS) - Why XML Chapter 2 (SBS) - Creating and Displaying Your First XML Document Part 2 -- Creating Your Own XML Documents March Chapter 3 (SBS) - Creating Well-Formed XML Documents Chapter 4 (SBS) - Adding Comments, Processing Instructions and CDATA Sections April Chapter 5 (SBS) - Creating Valid XML Documents Chapter 6 (SBS) - Defining and Using Entities Part 3 -- Displaying XML Documents on the Web May Chapter 7 (SBS) - Displaying XML Documents using Cascading Style Sheets Chapter 8 (SBS) - Displaying XML Documents using Data Binding June Chapter 9 (SBS) - Displaying XML Documents using Document Object Model Scripts Chapter 10 (SBS) - Displaying XML Documents using XSL Style Sheets Part 4 -- XSLT Programmer's Reference July XSLT transformation processing model Style sheet structure August XSLT element reference Expressions patterns Functions September Style-sheet design patterns Saxon, Xalan, xt and Microsoft MSXML3 October XML and Search Engines XML and non-XML Browsers