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Course Title:   XML course

This practical hands-on course is designed to give HTML coders a comprehensive introduction to XML (plus DTD, Namespaces and RSS) and the emerging technologies of Xlink, Xpointer and Xinclude.

Audience

This practical hands-on course is designed to give HTML coders a comprehensive introduction to XML (plus DTD, Namespaces and RSS) and the emerging technologies of Xlink, Xpointer and Xinclude.
Pre-Requisites

On Completion

Upon successful completion of this course, students will have a solid understanding of :

XML Rules
Document Type Definition
XML Schema
Templates
XSLT 

Description

XML is a meta-language for describing markup languages. XML offers the capability to define tags and the structural relationships between them and omits the need for predefined tags. This eliminates the unnecessary restrictions faced when coding in HTML which explains XML's fast growing popularity.

This practical hands-on course is designed to give HTML coders a comprehensive introduction to XML (plus DTD, Namespaces and RSS) and the emerging technologies of Xlink, Xpointer and Xinclude.

XML Level 1 Course Outline

Introduction
• XML, XHTML and HTML
• Why XML?
• The Document Object model
• Modelling XML documents
• Well-formed and valid documents

Basic rules of XML
• Elements, Attributes and Values
• XML declaration
• The Root Element
• Adding comments
• Default entities
• Displaying tags as text
• Namespaces

Document Type Definition (DTD)
• Internal DTD
• External DTD
• Personal external DTD
• Public external DTD
• Occurrence operators

Defining elements and attributes in a DTD
• Defining elements
• Defining an element to contain
- only text
- one child
- a sequence
• Defining choices
• Simple attributes
• Attributes and unique values

Entities and notations in DTDs
• Internal general entities
• Shortcuts for text in external files
• External parameter entities
• Entities for unparsed content
• Embedding unparsed content

Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
• Push vs Pull technology
• RSS readers
• Transforming your RSS
• Browsers and RSS transformation

XML schema
• Simple and complex types
• Schema namespaces
• Target location
• Simple schema
• Simple schema's location
• Annotating schemas
• Validating with schemas

Introduction to XSLT
• Source tree
• Style sheet
• Result tree
• Parsers
• Template rules
• Literals
• Xpath

Building templates
• Looping through your XML document
• Formatting your template
• Template match
• Value-of select
• Extracing attributes
• Formatting tables
• Sorting

Emerging technologies
• Xpointer
• Xinclude

Questions and answers

Course Title 2 XML course Classification IT -> Design -> Design XML Course Requirements You should have the following experience prior to taking this course: Have experience with Windows or Macintosh operating systems Use and have knowledge of the web environment and web browsers Have HTML coding experience Price Notes Sorry at this time we have no public Level One courses scheduled, please call or email us to see if we can arrange a private course for you.

Course Information Location Western Cape - Cape Town Course Type Full-time Start Dates Length of Course 2 days Final Registration Date

Contact Details Name Multimedia Centre Training Phone +27 21 790 3684 Email trainingmultimediacentre.co.za