XML Introduction training course

Introduction to XML

• What is XML?
• XML document tags
• Rules for naming XML terms
• The XML document - elements, the hierarchical element structure
• The XML document attributes - elements vs. attributes, entities, text
• A well formed XML document
• Namespaces

Using XML

• XML in the Enterprise
• XML over the web
• XML architecture and design
• Some XML applications (XHTML, SVG)

Validating XML documents - I

DTD - Document Type Definition

• Using a DTD, a sample DTD
• Definition of elements, attributes, entities

Validating XML documents - II

XML Schemas

• Schema Grammar and vocabulary
• Elements, schema, datatype, attribute type, group, description
• Referring to a schema in an XML file
• Converting DTD to schemas
• Using namespace and open model

Styling and displaying XML
CSS Cascading Style Sheets

• The History of CSS
• Syntax
• Selector by attribute (class, id)
• Styles (units, colours, display/background, text, font, border, margin)
• Styles (padding, classification, positioning)

Styling and transforming XML
XSL eXtensible Style Language

• XSLT and FO
• XSL capabilities
• Templates
• XSL style sheets
• Matching elements by location Xpath
• Matching attributes and ids
• Testing for existence
• Processing XSL and program flow
• Repetition
• XSL number and string functions
• Node-set functions
• Sample style sheets
• Examples using formatting objects
• Variables, white space
• Importing style sheets

DOM Document Object Model

• The XML DOM
• A document tree
• Accessing the DOM
• The DOM Interfaces
• Accessing nodes
• Data types returned by DOM Methods
• Adding nodes
• Node interface, types, attributes, methods
• The Character Data Interface
• The element interface
• Implementing DOM

Parsing XML

SAX Simple APIs for XML

• SAX - how it works
• How to parse an XML document
• HandlerBase class
• Element, text callbacks
• DOM versus SAX
• Parsing XML
• SAX parser considerations
• Java parsers