XML Development Course Objectives
The XML Development course provides an intensive hands-on introduction to
programming real-world XML based systems in a distributed environment. The course will
introduce the delegates to the latest theoretical and practical issues surrounding the
programming of XML-based systems (content vs. layout) and interfaces to languages such as
Java.
Who Should Attend
Developers looking to discover the power and benefits of XML through hands-on practical
application and programming of the technology.
Pre Requisite Skills
HTML.
Associated Course(s)
XSLT for XML Transformations
XML for Java Developers
XML Management Overview
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
Using a DTD, a sample DTD
Definition of elements, attributes, entities
Parameter entity declaration
Declaring notations
Using Binary files
Conditional DTD sections
Schema Grammar and vocabulary
Elements, schema, datatype, attribute type, group, description
Referring to a schema in an XML file
Converting DTD to schemas
Open and closed content models
Using namespace and open model
The History of CSS
Syntax
Selector by attribute (class, id)
Styles (units, colours, display/background, text, font, border, margin)
Styles (padding, classification, positioning)
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
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
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
Delegates will build a contact list (or similar) in XML, will validate, display and parse it