Mastering Altova MissionKit

Review of XML technologies and how they are used in modern applications

Overview of how XMLSpy facilitates development of the XML-related features of these applications

Overview of the XMLSpy environment

Customizing the XMLSpy environment

Creating an xml document

Adhering to syntax guidelines

Specifying an XML processing instruction

Creating elements and attributes

Checking a document for well-formedness

Specifying an applicable DTD (Document Type Definition) or schema

Validating a document against the DTD or schema

Embedding comments, entities, and character data

Using XMLSpy's Grid view as a more visual way to edit XML documents

Deciding on the structure of your document type or types

Deciding whether to specify document types via DTDs or Schemas

Building a DTD in XMLSpy

Applying the DTD

Why use a schema instead of a DTD?

Building an XML schema visually in XMLSpy's Schema Design View

Creating simple types

Deriving simple types

Creating complex types

Controlling element and attribute data types

Controlling element frequency and sequence

Controlling value ranges for numeric element and attribute values

Controlling regular expression patterns for string element and attribute values

Applying XML schemas to existing documents

Building new documents based on XML schemas

Why use namespaces in schemas?

Using namespaces in schemas

Modeling a schema

OO schema design

Importing plain text files

Importing data from a relational database

Importing data from Word documents

Creating XMLSpy projects

Building an appropriate directory hierarchy for the project

Adding and deleting files in the projects

Using source control with XMLSpy

Spell checking

Customizing the editing environment

Overview of XSL, XSLT, and XSL-FO

Transforming XML with XSLT

Creating, applying, and calling templates

Generating output in multiple document types (XML, HTML, WML, etc.)

Extracting single values from XML documents and outputting them

Iterating through multiple elements and displaying their data as lists, tables, etc.

XSLT conditionals with xsl:if, xsl:choose, xsl:when, and xsl:otherwise

Sorting output

Working with XSL text, variables, and data

Using XSLT modes

Using XSLT functions

Overview of Web services and Web service architecture

The roles of SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI

Creating SOAP documents via XMLSpy

Examining SOAP documents returned by Web services

Creating WSDL documents via XMLSpy

Obtaining WSDL documents from Web services

Building SOAP documents that conform to a Web service's requirements, as set forth in its WSDL file

The role of STLYEVISION within MissionKit

The uses of SPS (StyleVision Power Stylesheets)

The relationship between StyleVision and Authentic view

Databases and StyleVision

Key concepts and terminology

Features overview

How Schemas support namespaces

Schemas with a single namespace

Schemas with multiple namespaces

Designing the form

Input fields

Combo boxes

Check boxes

Buttons

Creating static tables

Creating dynamic tables

Formatting static and dynamic tables

XML tables

Understanding XSL-FO syntax

PDF page definition

PDF cover page

PDF headers and footers

PDF fonts

Connecting to a database and setting up the SPS

Creating and applying DB filters

RTF

XSLT

HTML

XSL-FO

FO

PDF

DB Schema

DB XML Data

The Authentic view interface

Using Authentic

The roles of MapForce

Key terminology

Functions and libraries

Setting up the mapping environment

Mapping schema items

Using functions to map data

Filtering data

Generating XSLT stylesheets

Working with multiple target schemas or documents

Mapping multiple source items to single target items

Setting up database drivers

Setting up code generators for generating Java, C#, or C++ code

Mapping XML data to databases

Creating and enforcing database relationships

Database filters and queries

Review of MapForce database platform support

Configuring the mff file

Defining the component user interface

Function implementation details

Writing your own libraries