Learn API Documentation with JSON and XML

Document structured data and grow your skills in web API documentation. This course shows how to write and document using JSON and XML.

Introduction to JSON and XML Documentation

• Welcome
• What you should know
• Using the exercise files
• Why document JSON and XML?
• Data types and structured data
• Tools for writing JSON and XML
• Markdown
• Markdown challenge
• Markdown solution

1. JSON

• JSON basics
• JSON examples
• Create JSON challenge
• Create JSON solution
• Documenting one-level JSON responses
• Documenting nested JSON responses
• Documenting JSON requests
• Documenting JSON challenge
• Documenting JSON solution

2. XML

• XML basics
• XML attributes and examples
• Advanced XML
• XML challenge
• XML solution
• Documenting XML
• XML documentation challenge
• XML documentation solution

3. Tools

• Tools for structured data documentation
• Using structured data for documentation

Conclusion

• Next steps