XML Programming Course

• Structured Data and Formatting
• The Need for Structured Data
• The Need for Richer Formatting Control
• Advantages of XML
• XML as an International Standard
• SGML, XML, and HTML
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Specifications and Grammars
• XML Applications and Tools
• Creating and Viewing XML Documents

• The Concept of Well-Formedness
• Well-Formed Structure
• Elements and Tags
• The XML Declaration
• Editing and Viewing XML Documents
• The Document Type Declaration
• Start and End Tags
• Empty Tags
• Element Nesting
• Element Attributes
• Comments
• Special Characters and Built-In Entities
• CDATA Sections
• Embedded XML
• External XML
• XML Parsers
• Displaying Data in Tables Using DHTML

• The Concept of Data Validation
• Writing Document Type Definition (DTD) Files
• Internal and External DTDs
• Validating Parsers
• The !DOCUMENT Tag
• Specifying Valid Elements and Subelements
• Specifying Valid Attributes
• Specifying Valid Entities
• Specifying Parameter Entities
• The CDATA Type
• The ID, IDREF, and IDREFS Types
• The ENTITY and ENTITIES Types
• The NMTOKEN and NMTOKENS Types
• The NOTATION Type
• Enumerations
• Conditional Sections
• Creating Internal DTDs
• Linking External DTDs to XML Documents
• Validation Tools

• Schema Design Goals (Limitations of DTDs)
• Mixing DTDs and Schemas
• Resolving Name Conflicts with Namespaces
• Schema Composition
• Linking Schemas to XML Documents
• Annotation Declarations
• Element Declarations
• Attribute Declarations
• W3C Schema Data Types
• Specifying Simple Types
• Regular Expressions
• Working with User-Defined Data Types
• Union and List Types
• Specifying Complex Types
• Deriving Complex Types Using Inheritance
• Reusable Groups
• Substitution Groups
• Identity Elements
• Validating Uniqueness
• Validating Required Fields
• Combining and Redefining Schemas

• The Limitations of CSS
• XSL Stylesheet Advantages
• Transformation vs. Formatting
• XSLT and XSL-FO
• XSLT Templates
• XPath Data Model
• Declaring XSL Stylesheets
• Built-In Templates
• Using Templates as Subroutines – xsl:apply-templates
• XPath Expression Syntax
• XPath Functions and Predicates
• Inserting Elements – xsl:element
• Inserting Attributes – xsl:attribute
• Extracting Node Values – xsl:value-of
• Looping – xsl:for-each
• Sorting - The order-by Attribute
• Simple Conditionals – xsl:if
• Multiple Conditionals – xsl:choose, xsl:when, and xsl:otherwise
• Copying Nodes – xsl:copy
• Modular Design Using Named Templates
• Rendering HTML Using XSLT and CSS
• XML-to-XML Transformations

• The Need for Namespaces
• Specifying a Namespace
• URLs, URIs, and URNs
• Qualifying Names
• Namespace Scoping
• The HTML Namespace
• Additional Significant Namespaceses

Formatting XML Documents with XSL-FO

• XML Documents with XSL-FO
• Purpose of XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO)
• XSL-FO Documents and XSL-FO Processors
• XSL-FO Namespace
• Page Format Specifiers
• Page Content Specifiers
• Presentation Conversion