This course offers students an introduction to XML. It is designed for both technical and non-technical students. All of the central XML technologies are covered, including XSLT, XML DOM, XML Linking, DTDs, and XML Schema. In addition to XML-specific technologies, other Web-centric technologies are also discussed.
HTML: Level 1
Course Content
- The Past, Present and Future of XML
- The limitation of SGML
- XML: The Best of All Worlds
Creating Well-formed XML Documents
- XML Document Markup
- Creating XML: Elements, Attributes and Entities
- Creating an XML Markup Language; Processing Instructions, Character Data and Comments
- XML and HTML
Valid XML with DTDs
- Introduction to the Document Type Definition (DTD)
- Creating a DTD
- Valid XML with Schema
- Schema Specification
- Defining Elements
- Defining Attributes
- XML Schema Data Types
- XML DOM and SAX
- XML APIs
- SAX
Displaying XML Documents using CSS
- Style Sheets
- Cascading Style Sheets
- Transforming XML with XSLT
- XSLT
- Using XSLT to Order Your Output
XML Namespaces
- Introduction to Namespaces
- Linking using HTML Namespaces
- XLink and XPointer
- Components of an XML Document