Data Formats / Markup Languages / XML / Encoding — Computers

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.

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 site with information and resources for programmers, implementers and others involved in computer globalization work.

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. [pdf]

Computers

Encoding resources