WA1225 Fundamentals of XML using WSAD Course Outline 1. Getting Started with XML Data and document structure XML Well-formed XML Validity vs. well-formed XML Enforcing validity: DTDs Presentation style XSL and XSLT 2. XML Overview Markups HTML vs. XML Why XML? Using XML 3. XML Syntax XML Fundamentals Tag Attributes Naming Rules Empty and Non-Empty Elements Nesting and Hierarchy of Tags Processing Instructions Other XML Tags Entity and Character References Namespaces 4. Writing DTDs XML DTDs DOCTYPE Element Conditions Element Quantifiers Attributes Attribute Default Parsed General Entities Parsed Parameterized Entities More on Namespaces 5. Basic XML Schemas Schema Overview A Minimal Schema Linking Documents to Schemas Element Declarations Attribute Declarations Complex Types Simple and Built-in Types Derivation of Simple Types Choices Named Types and Anonymous Types Mixed Content 6. Transforming XML Using XSLT Transformations Templates Extracting Element Values Choosing Specific Cases Multiple Element Transformation Sorting Elements 7. Presenting XML for the Web - CSS Stylesheet Languages Formatting With Rules Defining Elements as Blocks Colors and Fonts Page Layout With CSS Lists 8. XML in Applications Reasons and Places for Using XML Parsers and Code Generators DOM Parsers SAX Parsers