Two-Day XML Course

You will learn:

Day 1

• What is XML
• Replacement for EDI
• Smaller version of SGML
• What can XML do
• XML specifications
• XML-Related Standards and Their Use
• XML Document
• XML Translation Process
• Define your own tags
• DTD (Document Type Definition)
• Displaying XML data
• Errors in XML documents
• Character Reference
• Well-formed XML syntax
• Tags
• Empty tags
• XML Elements and children
• The root element
• Attributes
• Binding XML to HTML
• Valid XML Documents
• Check List for going through a DTD
• DTD - Basic Elements
• Parent/Child Relationships
• Attribute Lists
• Determine Attribute Value Types
• Entity Declarations
• Adding Comment
• Inline and External DTD
• External DOCTYPE declaration
• Building Blocks of Valid XML documents
• DTD Elements
• DTD Entities
• PCDATA
• CDATA
• Escape Characters
• Building CSS
• Displaying XML files with CSS
• Building XSL
• Viewing XML Data using XSL
• Three languages of XSL
• XSLT - XSL Transformations
• Transform XML into HTML using XSL.
• XSL Templates
• Using XSL Sort
• Filter an XML file using XSL
• Using Conditional IF to filter information from XML data
• Use a conditional choose in XSL to filter an XML document.
• XSLT Elements

Day 2

• XML in Data Islands
• Embed XML data directly in the HTML fil
• Embed XML data as an external fil
• Using the XML parse
• Create an XML document object
• Loading an XML file into the parser
• Display XML data using JavaScript
• Transform XML to HTML on the Server with ASP
• XML Softwar
• XML Spy
• XMLwriter
• UltraXML
• XED
• XML Notepad
• parseError object and error code
• Properties of the parseError object
• XML DOM
• The Document object
• Return the node name of the root element
• Create a CDATA node and append to the nodelist
• Create a comment node and then append it to the nodeList
• Create an element node
• Create a text node
• return the value of a specified node
• Retrun the tag name of a node
• Return an attribute's value
• Change an attribute's value
• DOM - the Element object
• DOM - The Attr object
• Return the name of an attribute
• Return the value of an attribute
• DOM - The Text object
• Create a text node
• Getting XML from a Database
• Build XML data from a database
• XML Namespaces
• Using a Prefix to solve the conflicts problem
• Declaring Namespaces
• Default Declaration
• Explicit Declaration
• Namespace Scope
• Schemas
• Difference between XSD schema and XDR schema
• Understand the syntax of Schema
• Comparing Schema Languages – DTD & Schema
• Schema support for data types
• Reference to XML Schema
• Schema Simple and Complex Elements
• Create your own Schema file
• Write XML complying with a schema

Date: Wednesday 15 September and Thursday 16 September 2010

Cost: $660 (Australian dollars) including morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea, notes and lots of hands on exercises

Time: 9 am - 5pm

Place: 600 Collins Street or at a place close to the Monash freeway about 25 minutes drive from Melbourne city in Australia

Enquiries or Enrolment:

Email: melbourne@expert.com.hk

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