XML Develolment - A Foundation for IT Professionals
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This course has been designed as an essential primer for IT professionals involved in the development of browser or non-browser based applications for the Windows platform, who require a practical understanding of the fundamentals of XML and its related technologies.
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This course provides an understanding of how the XML development toolset can be used. On completing the course delegates will be confident working with XML documents which use DTDs and incorporate XML Namespaces, and will have the confidence to plan and prepare their projects in advance of training on other technologies e.g. Schema, XPath, XSLT, DOM, SAX and MSXML 4.0
The XML Format - Elements and Attributes
Well-Formedness and Validity in relation to XML
XML Data Interchange and Interoperability
The role of Namespaces
The use of DTDs with XML documents
What Entities are and how to create them
The limitations of DTDs
The use of Schema - with particular emphasis on Data Typing
The use of some key XML applications: XHTML, XSLT, Schema, SOAP
Where CSS fits in
What part Parser/Processors play
Server-side and Client-side Parsing/Processing issues
Some W3C and Microsoft issues for the Real World
The importance of Microsoft Core Services (MSXML 4.0)
How to create instances of MSXML 4.0 in applications
How XPath Expressions are used to access XML data
XSLT as a standard method of transforming XML documents (XML to XML, XML to HTML)
The DOM as W3C recommended API to XML
The use of simple API for XML (SAX) separate to or alongside DOM
Reviewing the role of XML in some current key XML applications