XML

Topic-Level Outline

Days: 2

Prerequisites: Knowledge of World Wide Web services and HTML

Unit 1 : XML basics

Topic A: 0 Introduction to XML

A-1: Defining XML

A-2: Exploring an XML document

Topic B: 0 The evolution of XML

B-1: Identifying the need for standards

B-2: Discussing SGML and HTML

B-3: Discussing the evolution of XML

Topic C: 0 Benefits of XML

C-1: Exploring the limits of HTML

C-2: Discussing the benefits of XML

Unit 2 : XML components

Topic A: 0 Defining an XML document

A-1: Exploring XML components

Topic B: 0 Document components

B-1: Exploring the prolog

B-2: Exploring the element hierarchy

B-3: Modifying an existing XML document

B-4: Applying XML attributes

B-5: Exploring entities and CDATA sections

B-6: Exploring well-formed and valid XML documents

Unit 3 : Document type definitions (DTDs)

Topic A: 0 Document modeling and DTDs

A-1: Discussing document type declarations and DTDs

A-2: Comparing internal and external DTDs

A-3: Creating a DTD in XML Spy

Topic B: 0 Declarations

B-1: Discussing element names

B-2: Creating a content model

B-3: Adding attribute list declarations

B-4: Discussing entity and notation declarations

B-5: Discussing DTDs and namespace declarations

Topic C: 0 Document analysis and testing

C-1: Creating and validating an XML document

Unit 4 : Schema

Topic A: 0 XML Schema

A-1: Discussing the disadvantages of DTDs

A-2: Exploring the W3C’s XML schema recommendations

Topic B: 0 Schema description and components

B-1: Exploring schema description

B-2: Exploring the schema elements and namespaces

B-3: Exploring element types and compositors

B-4: Exploring attributes and cardinality

B-5: Exploring simple types and schema structures

B-6: Discussing the complex type declaration

B-7: Discussing facets

Topic C: 0 Creating a schema

C-1: Converting a DTD file to schema

C-2: Creating XML schema from scratch

C-3: Adding global components in a schema

Unit 5 : Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Topic A: 0 CSS and XML

A-1: Discussing CSS and XML

A-2: Linking an XML document to a style sheet

Topic B: 0 CSS styles

B-1: Discussing CSS rules

B-2: Creating CSS styles

B-3: Applying a class style and updating the DTD

Unit 6 : XML transformations

Topic A: 0 Transforming XML documents

A-1: Discussing XML transformations

A-2: Discussing XSL, XPath, and XSLT

Topic B: 0 Data transformation

B-1: Exploring the XML source document

B-2: Discussing DTD and source tree structure

B-3: Discussing XSLT stylesheets

B-4: Discussing query contexts and template rules

B-5: Discussing repetitive loops and sorting

B-6: Transforming an XML document to HTML using XSLT

B-7: Applying conditional statements and the mode attribute

B-8: Changing XML grammar with XSLT

Unit 7 : Linking in XML

Topic A: 0 XML Linking Language

A-1: Exploring XLink basics

A-2: Discussing resources and link traversal

Topic B: 0 Creating links with XLink

B-1: Exploring XLink’s namespace and global attributes

B-2: Discussing restrictions

B-3: Exploring an XML document containing an XLink

Topic C: 0 Validating XLinks

C-1: Adding a link to an XML document

C-2: Examining an XML document with extended links

Topic D: 0 XML Pointer (XPointer)

D-1: Discussing XPointer

D-2: Discussing fragment identifier components

D-3: Discussing XPointer axes and node tests

D-4: Discussing XPointer location set functions

D-5: Examining XPointer expressions

D-6: Exploring XPointer point and range

Unit 8 : XML APIs

Topic A: 0 Introduction to XML APIs

A-1: Exploring XML parsers and interfaces

A-2: Exploring SAX and DOM

Topic B: 0 DOM interfaces and objects

B-1: Applying the nodeName and nodeValue properties

B-2: Adding an element node to an XML document

B-3: Extracting an attribute’s name and value

Topic C: 0 Sax versus DOM

C-1: Discussing SAX and DOM

Unit 9 : XML data binding basics

Topic A: 0 Data binding fundamentals

A-1: Discussing data binding fundamentals

A-2: Discussing data consumers

A-3: Discussing extended attributes

A-4: Exploring <div> and <span>

A-5: Using the <table> element for data set binding

Topic B: 0 Integrating XML data sources

B-1: Creating an internal data island

B-2: Creating an external data island

B-3: Discussing data binding agents

Topic C: 0 Data source objects

C-1: Discussing how DSO returns data

C-2: Discussing data nesting and the two-level rule

C-3: Creating navigation components

Appendix A : XML authoring tools

Topic A: 0 XML editors

Topic B: 0 Integrated development environments

Appendix B : Introduction to XHTML

Topic A: 0 Understanding XHTML

Topic B: 0 XHTML variants and DTDs

Topic C: 0 XHTML utilities