WA1047 XML Boot Camp for Programmers Course Outline 1. Creating and Using XML Data and Document Structure Markup Languages What is XML? Why XML? An Example of XML Document Well-formed vs. Valid XML Document Enforcing Validity: DTDs Presentation Style Sections of an XML Document XML Elements Nesting and Hierarchy of XML Elements Tag Attributes Naming Rules Empty and Non-Empty Elements Other XML Tags Entity References Character References Namespaces Processing Instructions 2. Writing DTDs DTD Types of DTDs DOCTYPE Internal DTDs External DTDs Element Declaration Element Qualifiers Validating XML with DTDs Attributes Declaration Attribute Type Values Parsed General Entities Parsed Parameter Entities 3. Basic XML Schemas What is XML Schema? Goals of Schema Minimal Schema Documents Required Linking Documents to Schema Element Declaration Schema Data Types Simple Types Restrictions in the Elements Using Facet Attribute Declarations Sequence Element Element Choice Validating XML with Schema Annotations 4. XSL Translation Formatting XML Documents XSL Three Parts of XSL XSLT - XSL Transformation <xsl:stylesheet> <xsl:template> <xsl:value-of> <xsl:for-each> <xsl:if> <xsl:choose> <xsl:sort> The Music Collection Example Introduction Sample XML file Retrieving Owner Details Retrieving Core Data Retrieving Canadian Content Retrieving Media Data Formatting XML Documents 5. Parsing XML with SAX XML Parser Obtaining a Parser SAX Pros and Cons Using SAX How it Works Core SAX2 Handler Classes XMLReader Interface XMLReader Feature XMLReader Factory Using SAX - Steps Create the Event Handler Create a SAX Parser Register the Event Handler Parse Document SAX Events Simple SAX Application Run the SAX Application startElement() Event Attributes Determine the Number of Attributes Determine Attribute Names Determine Attribute Values Determine Attribute Types Using the Attribute 6. Parsing XML with DOM DOM Limitations of SAX DOM Parser Nodes The Basic Node Types Less Common Node Types DOM Interfaces Our first DOM application 7. Accessing and Generating XML Documents with DOM Accessing DOM object. Using the DOM API to access DOM objects. Traversing a DOM object. Modifying a DOM object. Extract DOM data. XML Generation with DOM. Building a DOM tree. Combining DOM objects. Using DocumentFragment to recognized a DOM tree. Generating XML data a Document object. An Example. Modifying an XML document using DOM. 8. Web Services Introduction Needs for and benefits of Web Services Web Service Description Language (WSDL) RPC (Remote Procedure Call) -based Web Services UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) 9. SOAP Needs for and benefits of SOAP SOAP message SOAP over HTTP RPC 10. Building XML Applications Needs for Using XML in Applications Basic Functionality Required for XML Applications Applying XML Across System Boundaries Using XML in Client Side Using XML is Server Side Using XML is Non Networked Systems Using XML is RDBMS The J2EE Blueprint A Typical Architecture of Using XML in J2EE Application Using XML in Applets Using XML Parser in Applets An Example is Using SAX Parser in Applets Using XML is Servlets An Example of Using DOM Parser in a DB Query Servlet Creating XML Middleware for Accessing Databases Transforming RDBMS Data to XML Data Transforming XML Data to RDBMS Data An Example of Using SAX for Loading XML Data to Database