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 OL327: Introduction
to XML - Extensible Markup Language
- Description:
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Participants will learn XML syntax and how to structure, store and retrieve complex data.
The course details the XML specification; the use of DTDs, Schemas and XSL; the
recommendations for XLink, XPath and XPointer; and details XML parsing for both the DOM
and SAX APIs. Participants work on a sample markup language to apply the concepts of the
course in a relevant application.
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- A good understanding of HTML, Cascading Style Sheets, the Web and the
process of Web publishing is required.
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- Objectives:
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- At the end of this course, participants
will be able to:
- Understand the role of XML for the
Web and in data-driven enterprise
- Examine the structure of an XML document
- Create a well-formed and valid XML
document by defining a DTD
- Explore additional XML structures
including Entities
- Understand XSL and create alternative stylesheets for a given XML document
- Understand XML to XML transformations (XSLT)
- Learn about the potential of XLink and XPointer
- Understand XML Schema
- Understand XML parsing with regards to both the DOM and SAX APIs
- Audience:
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- Internet application developers and
Web designers.
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- Prerequisities:
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- Good understanding of HTML, Web and
the process of Web publishing. Participants should have taken OL305 or OL306
or have equivalent HTML experience.
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- Duration: 3 days
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- Course Contents:
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Unit 1: XML Overview
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Explore the origins of XML.
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Understand the purpose of XML (high level overview).
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Determine where XML fits into the data-driven enterprise.
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Learn to identify the important XML-related standards.
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Unit 2: XML Fundamentals, Structure and Implementation,
Part 1
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Understand the structure of an XML document.
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Use processing instructions, comments, elements and attributes.
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Define a "valid" XML document using a DTD.
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Create BRML - Bug Reporting Markup Language.
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Unit 3: XML Fundamentals, Structure and Implementation,
Part 2
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Use additional XML structures, such as entities and notations.
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Improve the BRML.
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Unit 4: XSL, Part 1
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Understand XSL: in particular XSL-T.
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Apply styles to an XML document using CSS and XSL.
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Improve the BRML.
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Unit 5: XSL, Part 2
- Use more advanced filtering methods.
- Use additional comparison methods.
- Make final changes to BRML.
Unit 6: XLink, XPath and XPointer
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Understand fundamentals of linking within XML (XLink).
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Have a brief overview of XPath locators (XPath).
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Understand fundamentals of XML Pointers (XPointer).
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Unit 7: XML Schema
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Understand schemas advantages over DTD’s.
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Identify the working aspects of using schemas.
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Create your own schema.
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Unit 8: DOM and SAX
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Understand the differences between SAX and DOM.
- Be able to use SAX to access data in an XML document.
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Be able to use DOM to access and modify XML data.
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