XML Introduction
Price: $1995
Duration: 4 days | XML Introduction Course Schedule
Prerequisites: Basic HTML knowledge. Attendance at the course Web Site Development with HTML/JavaScript is sufficient to meet prerequisites for this course.
Description: This hands on XML course presents a thorough introduction to creating, validating, transforming, and formatting XML data. The course covers structuring data with XML; validating that data with document type definitions (DTDs) and schemas; creating and viewing XML documents; and transforming XML documents with the XML Stylesheet Language (XSL, XSLT and XPATH). Extensive examples and demos are provided, as well as comprehensive hands on lab exercises that reinforce the concepts being taught and introduce the practical application of XML to business problems.
Students interested in additional coverage of programming issues including Web Services, DOM parsing, and SAX parsing should instead register for the 5 day XML Programming class.
The Need for XML
- Structured Data and Formatting
- The Need for Structured Data
- The Need for Richer Formatting Control
- Advantages of XML
- XML as an International Standard
- SGML, XML, and HTML
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Specifications and Grammars
- XML Applications and Tools
- Creating and Viewing XML Documents
- The Concept of Data Validation
- Writing Document Type Definition (DTD) Files
- Internal and External DTDs
- Validating Parsers
- The !DOCUMENT Tag
- Specifying Valid Elements and Subelements
- Specifying Valid Attributes
- Specifying Valid Entities
- Specifying Parameter Entities
- The CDATA Type
- The ID, IDREF, and IDREFS Types
- The ENTITY and ENTITIES Types
- The NMTOKEN and NMTOKENS Types
- The NOTATION Type
- Enumerations
- Conditional Sections
- Creating Internal DTDs
- Linking External DTDs to XML Documents
- Validation Tools
- The Limitations of CSS
- XSL Stylesheet Advantages
- Transformation vs. Formatting
- XSLT and XSL-FO
- XSLT Templates
- XPath Data Model
- Declaring XSL Stylesheets
- Built-In Templates
- Using Templates as Subroutines – xsl:apply-templates
- XPath Expression Syntax
- XPath Functions and Predicates
- Inserting Elements – xsl:element
- Inserting Attributes – xsl:attribute
- Extracting Node Values – xsl:value-of
- Looping – xsl:for-each
- Sorting - The order-by Attribute
- Simple Conditionals – xsl:if
- Multiple Conditionals – xsl:choose, xsl:when, and xsl:otherwise
- Copying Nodes – xsl:copy
- Modular Design Using Named Templates
- Rendering HTML Using XSLT and CSS
- XML-to-XML Transformations
XML Document Syntax
- The Concept of Well-Formedness
- Well-Formed Structure
- Elements and Tags
- The XML Declaration
- Editing and Viewing XML Documents
- The Document Type Declaration
- Start and End Tags
- Empty Tags
- Element Nesting
- Element Attributes
- Comments
- Special Characters and Built-In Entities
- CDATA Sections
- Embedded XML
- External XML
- XML Parsers
- Displaying Data in Tables Using DHTML
- Schema Design Goals (Limitations of DTDs)
- Mixing DTDs and Schemas
- Resolving Name Conflicts with Namespaces
- Schema Composition
- Linking Schemas to XML Documents
- Annotation Declarations
- Element Declarations
- Attribute Declarations
- W3C Schema Data Types
- Specifying Simple Types
- Regular Expressions
- Working with User-Defined Data Types
- Union and List Types
- Specifying Complex Types
- Deriving Complex Types Using Inheritance
- Reusable Groups
- Substitution Groups
- Identity Elements
- Validating Uniqueness
- Validating Required Fields
- Combining and Redefining Schemas
- The Need for Namespaces
- Specifying a Namespace
- URLs, URIs, and URNs
- Qualifying Names
- Namespace Scoping
- The HTML Namespace
- Additional Significant Namespaceses
Formatting XML Documents with XSL-FO
- XML Documents with XSL-FO
- Purpose of XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO)
- XSL-FO Documents and XSL-FO Processors
- XSL-FO Namespace
- Page Format Specifiers
- Page Content Specifiers
- Presentation Conversion
