Introduction to XML

Length: 2 days
CourseID: introxml

Prerequisites:

Participants should have software development background. Familiarity with HTML is helpful.

Overview:

XML is becoming the de-facto standard for transporting information across the network. Students will become familiar with the standards and the syntax of not only XML but a few of the critical standards. This is a Hands-On course, and the students will be designing and developing XML documents in class.

Objectives:

Build applications using XML

Learn XML Syntax

Describe the standards driving XML

Build well-formed XML

Build DTDs

Validate XML with DTDs

Build Schemas

Validate XML with Schemas

Write Simple XSLT Transformations

Chapters:

Introduction to XML

Overview	Legacy datatypes
XML Specifications	Simple XML
Why XML?	Designing applications with XML

XML Syntax

Syntax Overview	XML Tags
XML Rules	Nesting XML Tags
XML Attributes	Built-in XML Entities
Attributes vs Tags	XML Namespaces

Document Type Definitions (DTDs)

Validating XML	DTD Syntax
Reading DTDs
Attributes in DTDs	External DTDs
Internal DTDs	Combining DTDs
Defining Entities	Internal Entities
External Entities

XML Schemas

Schemas vs DTDs	Assigning Schemas
Namespaces revisited	The xsi Namespace
Schema Structure	Core Schema Elements
Simple Elements	Complex Elements
Built-in Data-types	Defining Data-types
Enumerations

Introduction to XSLT

Transformation Overview	Simple Stylesheets
Templates	Built-in templates
Transformation to HTML	Building templates
Performing the transformation