RELAX NG Training: Introduction to RELAX NG

Course Number: XML-300
Duration: 1 day
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RELAX NG Training Overview

Accelebrate's RELAX NG training teaches attendees how to write and use RELAX NG schemas.

Location and Pricing

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RELAX NG Training Prerequisites

All attendees must have a solid understanding of XML and what makes an XML document well-formed. Prior XPath and or XML Schema experience is helpful but not required.

Hands-on/Lecture Ratio

This RELAX NG training class is 60% hands-on, 40% 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.

RELAX NG Training Materials

All RELAX NG training students receive a copy of O'Reilly's RELAX NG and courseware.

Software Needed on Each Student PC

RELAX NG-validating XML editor of your choice. If you do not have a preference, we would be happy to present suggestions
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RELAX NG Training Objectives

After this training, attendees shall be able to:

Understand the difference between RELAX NG schemas and XSD Schemas
Master RELAX NG fundamentals, including patterns and quantifiers
Write RELAX NG schemas in compact and regular syntax
Use patterns
Specify datatypes and constraints
Create datatype libraries
Take advantage of namespaces
Use multiple schemas with the same document

RELAX NG Training Outline

Introduction

The need for validation
How RELAX NG fits into the XML landscape
RELAX NG concepts

Basic RELAX NG

Patterns are the basis for everything
Basic patterns: element, text and attribute
Quantifiers: optional, zeroOrmore and oneOrMore
A complete schema

The compact syntax

Why have an alternate syntax?
Building a complete schema in compact syntax

Patterns and structure

Named patterns
The start pattern: controlling the document element
Controlling pattern order: compositors

group
choice
Groups of choices and choices of groups
interleave
interleave with other compositors

Mixed content

text vs empty
interleave with text
The mixed pattern

RELAX NG datatypes and constraints

RELAX NG datatypes

string vs token
The value pattern

RELAX NG basic constraints

Fixed values
Enumerations
Exclusions
The data pattern

Co-occurence constraints

Datatype libraries

Why swappable datatypes?
Using a datatype library
The W3C XML Schema datatype library
Constraints with the W3C XML Schema datatype library

Namespaces

The default namespace
Namespaces with prefixes
Using more than one namespace at a time

Multiple Schemas

Embedding grammars
Merging grammars

Without redefinition
With redefinition and replacement
Combining definitions

Conclusion

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