XML Training: Core XML

XML Training Outline

• Introduction
• Writing XML
• Elements, attributes, and values
• Rules for writing XML
• Declaring the XML version
• Creating the root element
• Writing non-empty elements
• Nesting elements
• Adding attributes
• Using empty elements
• Writing comments
• Writing symbols
• Displaying elements as text when necessary
• DTD (Document Type Definition) fundamentals
• Role of DTDs
• Declaring a document's type
• Internal vs. external DTDs
• Defining elements
• As containing only text
• As containing a child element
• As containing a sequence of child elements
• Defining choices
• Defining element frequency
• Defining attributes
• Simple attributes
• Attributes with unique values
• Required vs. implied attributes
• Entities and notations
• Creating and using shortcuts for text
• Creating and using shortcuts for DTDs
• Creating entities for unpaired content
• XML Schema
• Role of XML Schemas and how they improve on DTDs
• Simple and complex types
• Local and global declarations
• Beginning a simple schema
• Indicating a simple schema's location
• Annotating schemas
• Defining simple types via XML Schemas
• Declaring an element with a simple type
• Using Date and Time types
• Using Number types
• Deriving custom simple types
• Using anonymous custom types
• Specifying a set of acceptable values
• Specifying a pattern for a simple type
• Specifying a range of acceptable values
• Limiting the length of a simple type
• Limiting a number's digits
• Creating list types
• Predefining an element's content
• Defining complex types via XML Schemas
• Defining elements to contain only elements
• Requiring elements to appear in sequence
• Creating a set of choices
• Allowing elements to appear in any order
• Defining named groups
• Referencing a named group
• Referencing already-defined elements
• Controlling element frequency
• Defining elements to contain only text
• Defining empty elements
• Defining elements with mixed content
• Basing complex types on complex types
• Declaring an element of a complex type
• Elements with anonymous complex types
• Declaring attributes
• Requiring an attribute
• Predefining an attribute's content
• Defining attribute groups
• Referencing attribute groups
• Using namespaces in XML
• The role of namespaces
• Designing a namespace name
• Declaring default namespaces
• Namespaces for individual elements
• How namespaces affect attributes
• Namespaces, DTDs, and valid documents
• Namespaces, schemas, and validation
• Schemas and namespaces
• Populating a namespace
• Adding all locally declared elements
• Adding particular locally declared elements
• Referencing components with namespaces
• Namespaces and validating XML
• Indicating where a schema is
• Schemas in multiple files
• Importing components
• XSLT basics (please see Mastering XSLT for a more comprehensive course)
• Transforming XML with XSLT
• Beginning an XSLT stylesheet
• Creating the root template
• Outputting HTML code
• Outputting a node's content
• Creating and applying template rules
• Batch-processing modes
• Processing nodes conditionally
• Adding conditional choices
• Sorting nodes before processing
• Generating attributes
• XPath: patterns and expressions
• Determining the current node
• Referring to the current node
• Selecting a node's children
• Selecting a node's parent or siblings
• Selecting all descendants of a node
• Selecting a node's attributes
• Selecting subsets
• XPath test expressions and functions
• Comparing two values
• Testing position
• Subtotaling values
• Counting nodes
• Multiplying, dividing, adding, subtracting
• Formatting numbers
• Rounding numbers
• Extracting substrings
• Capitalizing strings
• Conclusion