Perl Training: XML Applications with Perl

Course Number : PRL-120
Duration: 3 days
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XML Applications with Perl Training Overview

XML (Extensible Markup Language) has become the leading standard for data interchange among applications. In this engaging and intensely hands-on course, Perl programmers learn how to build applications for producing, processing, searching, and transforming XML data.

Location and Pricing

Most Accelebrate courses are taught on-site at our clients' locations worldwide for groups of 3 or more attendees and are customized to their specific needs. Please visit our client list to see organizations for whom we have recently delivered training. These courses can also be delivered as live, private online classes for groups that are geographically dispersed or wish to save on the instructor's or students' travel expenses. To receive a customized proposal and price quote private training at your site or online, please contact us.

In addition, some courses are available as live, online classes for individuals. To see a schedule of online courses, please visit http://www.accelebrate.com/online_training/?action=category&page=perl.

XML Applications with Perl Training Prerequisites

Database-Driven CGI Programming with Perl training or equivalent Perl scripting experience. Core XML training or equivalent XML experience is recommended but not required. This course can be customized to almost all levels of Perl and XML experience.

Hands-on/Lecture Ratio

This Perl training class is 70% hands-on, 30% lecture, with the longest lecture segments lasting for 20 minutes. Students "learn by doing," with immediate opportunities to apply the material they learn to real-world problems.

XML Applications with Perl Training Materials

All XML Applications with Perl training students receive a copy of New Riders Publishing's Perl and XML and related courseware.

Software Needed on Each Student PC (or a Server Accessible via Telnet or Remote Desktop Connection)

Windows, MacOS, or Unix operating system
The latest version of Perl installed
A text editor for editing the Perl scripts (please contact us to discuss the best editor for your environment)
A variety of Perl modules for producing, parsing, searching, and transforming XML (please see the outline below for a complete list; Accelebrate gladly helps its clients install/configure these modules)

XML Applications with Perl Training Objective

To teach attendees how to build Perl-based applications that successfully produce, parse, search, and transform XML data

XML Applications with Perl Training Outline

Introduction

Overview of using XML with Perl

Quick refresher on XML and related technologies (DTD, XML Schema, XSLT, XPath, and others)
What is XML processing?
XML parser paradigms
Generating Transforming XML documents
Examination of our first Perl XML programs

Parsing XML documents using Perl

Event driven Parser modules

Major approaches to parsing
Advantages of event-driven parsers
Disadvantages of event-driven parsers
Understanding sequential-access event driver parsers
XML::Parser Perl module
SAX1 and SAX2

Tree-based parser modules

What is a tree-based XML parser?
Tree-based XML parser modules
What is the Document Object Model?
DOM-based XML parser modules

Generating XML documents using Perl modules

Generating XML documents from text files

Introduction to XML generation
Different methods of generating XML data
Hands-on application of different approaches to generating XML data from text files

Generating XML documents from databases

Why store data in XML?
Introduction to the DBI.pm module (or a refresher if attendees are already familiar with the module)
XML::Generator::DBI Perl module
XML::DBMS Perl module

Transforming delimited and Excel files into XML (and vice versa)

XML::SAXDriver::CSV Perl module
XML::SAXDriver::Excel Perl module
Developing a custom event handler

Advanced XML

XML transformation and filtering

XSLT introduction
XPath introduction
XML::XPath Perl module
XML::LibXSLT Perl module
XML::Sablotron Perl module

AxKit

Serving Web content with AxKit
Installing AxKit
Making the content for delivery
Additional AxKit tools

Perl and XML Web services

What are Web services?
Understanding SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI
Consuming a Web service from a Perl script
Exposing a Perl script as a Web service

Conclusion

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