Introduction to XML | XML Essentials

Course Code: 1330

$1495

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Overview

This course is designed as an intensive, hands-on introduction to XML, XPath, and XSLT. The course combines both theory and practical labs to equip participants with the fundamentals of XML and related advanced technologies. The course helps participants master the concepts and ideas, which are reinforced further in the lab exercises.

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Course Delivery

This course is available in the following formats:

Live Classroom
Duration: 5 days

Live Virtual Classroom
Duration: 5 days

What You'll learn

Write well-formed XML documents
Model business requirements using XML
Handle XML reserved characters
Validate an XML document with a DTD and with a Schema
Centralize data and markup definition with entities
Create DTDs and Schemas using XML tools
Generate XML documents from databases
Write XSL templates to transform XML documents into HTML
Integrate XML, XSL and the DOM to implement a complete solution

Outline

Module 1: XML content

Introduction to XML
- XML separates structure, content and format
- Content: XML document syntax rules
- Structure: DTD or XML Schema
- Formatting: XSLT transformation to HTML
XML mechanics
- XML document structure
- Rules for well-formed XML
- Content as markup
- Namespaces associate alias with a URI

Module 2: XML structure

Namespaces
- XML Namespaces
- Name collisions
- Namespace scope
- Namespaces best practices
Structure Using Schemas
- Document type definition (DTD)
- W3C XML Schemas
- Elements, attributes, and types
- Restricting simple types: Facets
- Complex types
- Attribute definitions
- Derivation by extension
- Using XML Schema with Namespaces

Module 3: XML formatting

CSS and rendering XML
- Cascading style sheets and XML
- XML/CSS processing flow
XSL transformations
- XPath describes locations within XML
- XSLT is rule-based transformation language
- XSL is oriented towards formatting
XSLT and XPath
- XPath data model
- Location paths
- Additional filtering
- XPath operators and functions
- XSLT stylesheet structure
- Templates are the rules
- Conflict resolution for templates
- Calling templates
- Looping, sorting and conditional processing constructs
XPath 2.0 and XSLT 2.0 overview
- XPath 2.0 Improvements
- XPath 2.0 and XQuery 1.0
- XSLT 2.0 Improvements
XSL FO (Formatting Objects)
- XSL family working together
- Apache’s FOP: Rendering XML
- Page types can be conditional
- Content flows into page regions

Module 4: Applying XML

XML interoperability
- XML from a data perspective
- XML/Database interfacing
- Challenges to mapping XML
XML performance improvements
- Best practices
- Organization of best practices
Web services overview
- XML in web services
- WSDL: Description
- Many Web services challenges
XML applications
- W3C activities
- Benefits of XML
- Drawbacks of XML
- Crossing boundaries
- Challenges to integration

Prerequisites

There are no mandatory prerequisites for this course, however, completing the Foundations of Agile course prior to taking up this course would be beneficial.