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DAY ONE
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 |
DAY TWO
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 |
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