XML For Programmers

Revision: TE3501_20060318

Course Length:

3 Days

Course Description:

This comprehensive course teaches you the principles, benefits and components of XML, introduces some advanced principles of XML development and emerging standards such as XSL, XPath, and XML Schemas. The course includes the use of the Java programming language to inspect, modify and create XML documents using the SAX and DOM Interfaces.

Who Should Attend:

This course was designed for Programmers and Web developers who want to use the Extensible Markup Language (XML) for creating, transferring and presenting data on the web or between software components.

Benefits of Attendance:

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Recognize all components of an XML document.
• Create XML-compliant markup languages.
• Write both a well-formed and valid document.
• Use namespaces to uniquely identify markup elements amongst the global creation of new documents.
• Understand the components of XML Application Programming Interfaces like DOM and SAX.

Prerequisites:

Students should have completed a course in Java Programming or have equivalent knowledge, and familiarity with HTML documents.

Course Outline:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
  1. History
  2. What is a Markup Language?
  3. SGML - Standard Generalized Markup Language
  4. HTML- Hypertext Markup Language
  5. Sample HTML document
  6. XML - Extensible Markup Language
  7. XML Vocabularies
  8. Creating Semantic Tags
• Chapter 2: Getting Started With XML
  1. XML Syntax
  2. Elements
  3. Attributes
  4. Comments
  5. Unicode and Character Sets
  6. Character References
  7. Entity References
  8. Character Data Sections (CDATA)
  9. Processing Instructions
  10. Parsing XML
• Chapter 3: Document Type Definitions
  1. Introduction to DTDs
  2. Element Type Declarations
  3. Cardinality Summary
  4. Attribute Type Declarations
  5. String Attribute Type Declarations
  6. Attribute Default Specifications
  7. Enumerated Attribute Type Declarations
  8. ID Attribute Type Declarations
  9. IDREF and IDREFS Attribute Type Declarations
  10. NMTOKEN Attribute Type Declarations
  11. Entity Type Declarations
  12. Entity Declarations
  13. ENTITY Attribute Type Declarations
  14. NOTATION Attribute Type Declarations
• Chapter 4: Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 (CSS2)
  1. What is a CSS?
  2. Creating CSS2 Stylesheets
  3. Selecting Elements
  4. Pattern Matching
  5. STYLE Attributes
  6. Inheritance
  7. Cascades
  8. Multiple Stylesheets
  9. Comments
  10. Property Names and Values
• Chapter 5: XML Stylesheet Language (XSL)
  1. What is XSL?
  2. What is XSLT?
  3. Using XSLT
  4. XSL Syntax
  5. Namespaces
  6. Trees and Nodes
  7. Associating Documents With Stylesheets
  8. XSL Stylesheet Element
  9. XSL Template Elements
  10. Accessing Node Values
  11. XSL Apply-Templates Element
  12. XSLT Match Patterns
  13. Expressions as Tests in Patterns
  14. Matching by ID
  15. XSL If Element
  16. XSL Choose Element
  17. XSL For-Each Element
  18. XSL Sort Element
  19. XSL Comment Element
  20. Miscellaneous
• Chapter 6: XML Schema
  1. Introduction to XML Schemas
  2. XML Schema Syntax
  3. Simple Types
  4. Built-in Primitive Simple Types
  5. Built-in Derived Simple Types
  6. Datatype Hierarchy
  7. Using Built-In Datatypes
  8. Defining Your Own Simple Types
  9. Facets
  10. List Types
  11. Union Types
  12. Complex Types
  13. Global vs. Local Elements and Attributes
  14. Complex Types with Simple Content
  15. Complex Types with Mixed Content
  16. Complex Types with No Content and Any Content
  17. Annotations
• Chapter 7: Document Object Model (DOM)
  1. What are Parsers?
  2. JAXP - A Plugability Layer
  3. Parsing with DOM
  4. Trees and Nodes
  5. DOM Node Types
  6. Processing Child Nodes
  7. Error Handling
  8. Building the Node Tree
• Chapter 8: SAX API
  1. Parsing with SAX
  2. Event Handling in SAX
  3. ContentHandler Interface
  4. Attributes Interface
  5. DTDHandler Interface
  6. EntityResolver Interface
  7. ErrorHandler Interface
  8. SAXParseException Class
• Chapter 9: Future XML Capabilities
  1. XLink
  2. Xpointer