XML Essential Training

Get started with Extensible Markup Language (XML). Learn about the basic rules of XML, explore its syntax, and review more advanced topics such as styling your XML with CSS.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know
• Exercise files
• Setting up the dev tools

1. Getting Started

• What is XML?
• XML technologies
• Describing data with XML
• Advantages and drawbacks of XML
• Real world examples of XML

2. XML Overview

• Types of XML content
• Proper XML syntax
• Valid documents
• XML namespaces

3. Working with XML

• Our first XML file
• XML and CSS styles
• Styling XML tags
• Advanced CSS with XML

4. Manipulating XML with the DOM

• Quick intro to the DOM
• Discovering document content
• Creating document content
• Bringing it all together

5. XML and XPath

• What is XPath?
• Taking XPath for a spin

6. XML and XSLT

• What is XSLT?
• Using XSLT with XML

7. XSLT Examples

• Simple XSLT
• XSLT and CSS
• Repeating items
• Conditional logic
• Sorting data

8. Document Type Definitions

• What is a DTD?
• DTD syntax
• Declaring elements
• Declaring attributes
• Building a DTD for a business card
• Associating a DTD with XML data

9. XML Schema

• What is XML schema?
• Anatomy of a schema
• Declaring elements
• Declaring attributes
• Building a schema for a business card

Conclusion

• Next steps