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XML Training: Core XML

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Course Number: XML-100
GSA/Previous Course Number: 500
Duration: 3 days
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XML Training Overview

XML (Extensible Markup Language) has emerged as the leading standard for data interchange between applications and between organizations. In this XML training class, attendees learn the core fundamentals of XML and its related technologies: XML, XSL, DTD, XML Schema, XPath, and more.

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/xml_html_js.htm.

XML Training Prerequisites

Prior knowledge of HTML and/or relational databases is helpful but not necessary.

Hands-on/Lecture Ratio

This XML training class is 70% hands-on, 30% lecture, with the longest lecture segments lasting for 15 minutes. Students "learn by doing," with immediate opportunities to apply the material they learn to real-world problems.

XML Training Materials

All XML training students receive a copy of O'Reilly's XML in a Nutshell and related courseware.

Software Needed on Each Student PC

  • Internet Explorer 6.0 or later
  • An XML or text editor of your choice (such as XMLSpy, TextPad, and other tools)
  • An XSL Transform (XSLT) engine of your choice
  • Please contact us for detailed setup instructions

XML Training Objectives

  • To learn how XML and its related technologies function and how they facilitate integration between applications
  • To master the core syntax of XML, DTD, and XML Schema
  • To learn the fundamentals of XSL (a more advanced treatment is available in Mastering XSLT)

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
 

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