Plus Plus Pty Ltd

This course covers the essentials of writing programs that work with XML files. Techniques that can be used to create, read and manipulate XML documents. Python and Perl modules, Java classes, VBA classes and C/C++ libraries are covered.

This course covers a number of different languages. Depending on the needs and background of the group, one or more of the languages can be given focus.

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

• Use event driven and tree-oriented parsers in your chosen language.
• See how XML can be used from Python, Perl, Java, VB/VBA and C/C++.

This course is aimed at programmers who need to work with XML.

Processing XML
Approaches and methods of processing
Formedness and validation failure
Generating XML
Reading and parsingXML

• How not to do it
• Event driven parsers
• Understanding the DOM and tree based parsers

XML and Python

XML and Perl

XML and Java

XML, VBA and Microsoft applications

XML and C/C++

(not all features available with all languages)