XML Essential Training

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know
• Exercise files
• Setting up the dev tools

1. Getting Started

• What is XML?
• XML technologies
• Describing data with XML
• Advantages and drawbacks of XML
• Real world examples of XML

2. XML Overview

• Types of XML content
• Proper XML syntax
• Valid documents
• XML namespaces

3. Working with XML

• Our first XML file
• XML and CSS styles
• Styling XML tags
• Advanced CSS with XML

4. Manipulating XML with the DOM

• Quick intro to the DOM
• Discovering document content
• Creating document content
• Bringing it all together

5. XML and XPath

• What is XPath?
• Taking XPath for a spin

6. XML and XSLT

• What is XSLT?
• Using XSLT with XML

7. XSLT Examples

• Simple XSLT
• XSLT and CSS
• Repeating items
• Conditional logic
• Sorting data

8. Document Type Definitions

• What is a DTD?
• DTD syntax
• Declaring elements
• Declaring attributes
• Building a DTD for a business card
• Associating a DTD with XML data

9. XML Schema

• What is XML schema?
• Anatomy of a schema
• Declaring elements
• Declaring attributes
• Building a schema for a business card

Conclusion

• Next steps