Summary

This course teaches you the principles, benefits and components of XML as well as both advanced principles of XML development, and the details behind emerging standards like namespaces, XPOINTER, XLINK, and XSL. The course also covers the components of XML Application Programming Interfaces like DOM and SAX.

PREREQUISITES: Knowledge of programming concepts WHO SHOULD ATTEND?: This course was designed for Programmers and Web designers who want to use the Extensible Markup Language (XML)for creating, transferring and presenting data on the web.

COURSE DESCRIPTION: The Extensible Markup Language (XML)is a subset of the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) that specifies the rules for creating markup languages (suchas HTML) that can be shared on the World Wide Web. This course teaches you the principles, benefits and components of XML as well as both advanced principles of XML development, and the details behind emerging standards like namespaces, XPOINTER, XLINK, and XSL. The course also covers programming support, browser support and the major contributions of key players like IBM, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems. The course also covers the components of XML Application Programming Interfaces like DOM and SAX.

BENEFITS OF ATTENDANCE: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Recognize all components of an XML document.
• Create XML-compliant markup languages
• Write both a well-formed and valid document
• Use XLINK to create multi-faceted links between documents
• Use namespaces to uniquely identify markup elements amongst the global creation of new documents U
• nderstand the components of XML Application Programming Interfaces like DOM and SAX

Course Outline

Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION

1. What is a Markup Language?
2. Creating Semantic Tags

Chapter 2: WHAT IS XML?

1. History
2. SGML
3. HTML
4. XML
5. XSL
6. XML vs. SGML
7. XML vs. HTML
8. XML Syntax
9. Elements
10. Attributes
11. Comments
12. Entity References
13. Processing Instructions
14. Character Data Instructions
15. Parsing XML

Chapter 3: DOCUMENT TYPE DEFINITIONS

1. Introduction to DTD's
2. Element Type Delarations
3. Attribute List Declarations
4. Entity Declarations
5. Notations
6. Namespaces

Chapter 4: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS LEVEL 1

1. What is CSS?
2. Creating CSS1 Style Sheets
3. Selecting Elements
4. Inheritance
5. Cascades
6. Comments
7. Property Names and Values

Chapter 5: XML STYLESHEET LANGUAGE (XSL)

1. What is XSL?
2. Using XSL
3. XSL Syntax
4. XSL Elements
5. Patterns for matching elements
6. More elements
7. XSL Formatting

Chapter 6: FUTURE XML CAPABILITIES

1. Xlink
2. XPointer
3. Schema

Chapter 7: DOM and SAX

1. DOM
2. SAX

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