Plus Plus Pty Ltd

This course gives a general overview of XML technologies. It is suitable for those wanting a general idea of the use of XML, for those using XML files, and for programmers that will be working with XML files (actual program codes used are covered in the Programming with XML course, for which this course is a pre-requisite).

Upon successful completion of this course you will be able to:

• Understand what XML is and what it's used for
• Understand the meanings of well-formed and valid
• Understand how XML can be generated
• Understand the two approaches to parsing XML
• Create schema for an XML document in DTD and XSchema
• Change presentation of XML documents with CSS and XSLT

This course is aimed at people who want an overview of XML.

Use of a computer. Knowledge of HTML is useful but not essential. No experience with XML is assumed. No experience of programming is needed.

Concepts
Introduction to XML
Pros & Cons
What XML is
What XML isn't
XML Element basics
The XML declaration
Processing instructions
Tags, Comments, Attributes
Well-formed and valid

Schemas
Document Type Definitions - DTD
XML Schema

Presentation
Cascading Style Sheets - CSS
XSL Formatting objects

Transformation
Transformations with XSLT

Web services and SOAP