WA1323 Comprehensive XML
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| 1. Getting Started with XML |
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- Data and document structure
- XML
- Well-formed XML
- Validity vs. well-formed XML
- Enforcing validity: DTDs
- Presentation style
- XSL and XSLT
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| 2. XML Overview |
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- Markups
- HTML vs. XML
- Why XML?
- Using XML
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| 3. XML Syntax |
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- 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
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| 4. Writing DTDs |
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- XML DTDs
- DOCTYPE
- Element Conditions
- Element Quantifiers
- Attributes
- Attribute Default
- Parsed General Entities
- Parsed Parameterized Entities
- More on Namespaces
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| 5. Basic XML Schemas |
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- 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
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| 6. Transforming XML Using XSLT |
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- Transformations
- Templates
- Extracting Element Values
- Choosing Specific Cases
- Multiple Element Transformation
- Sorting Elements
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| 7. Presenting XML for the Web - CSS |
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- Stylesheet Languages
- Formatting With Rules
- Defining Elements as Blocks
- Colors and Fonts
- Page Layout With CSS
- Lists
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| 8. XML in Applications |
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- Reasons and Places for Using XML
- Parsers and Code Generators
- DOM Parsers
- SAX Parsers
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| 9. XPath |
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- Syntax of Location Path Expression
- Syntax of XPath Expression
- XPath Core Functions
- XPath String Functions
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| 10. Parsing XML with SAX |
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- Parsing with SAX
- Building SAX Parsers
- SAX Event Methods
- ContentHandler
- SAX Parser Behavior
- Error Handling
- SAX Parser Usage
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| 11. Parsing XML with DOM |
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- DOM
- Limitations of SAX
- DOM Parser
- Nodes
- The Basic Node Types
- Less Common Node Types
- DOM Interfaces
- Our first DOM application
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| 12. Accessing and Generating XML Documents with DOM |
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- Accessing DOM object
- sing 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
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| 13. Validating XML with DTDs and Schema |
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- Validate XML with DTDs
- Validate XML with Schemas
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| 14. Distributed Applications with XML |
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- The fundamentals of using XML in distributed systems
- Basic functionalities for XML applications
- Applying XML across system boundaries
- Using XML in client side
- Using XML in server side
- Passing XML over TCP/IP
- Using XML in non-networked system
- Using XML in RDBMS
- Using XML in J2EE applications
- Using XML in applets
- Using XML in servlets
- Creating XML middleware with databases
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| 15. XSLT Transformation using Java |
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- XSLT Packages
- Reading an XML
- Transforming to HTML
- Transforming for output at System.Out
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| 16. JAXB |
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- Introducing JAXB
- Interfaces and Classes
- Unmarshal
- Retrieving Data
- Generating XML from JAXB
- Marshall the content tree
- Validation
- Advantages of JAXB
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| 17. Web Services Introduction |
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- 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)
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| 18. SOAP |
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- Needs for and benefits of SOAP
- SOAP message
- SOAP over HTTP
- RPC
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