XML Syntax Fundamentals

This course details the fundamental syntax features of XML 1.0 and XML 1.1, including namespaces and other ancillary specifications for writing and for interpreting the content of conforming XML documents.

This course covers all of the features of XML 1.0 and XML 1.1, including when it is necessary to use which version of XML. Also included are the details of using XML namespaces, XML identifiers and XML Base URIs. This course is important to those responsible for writing raw XML syntax by hand for XML-based programming languages such as XSLT, XQuery, XProc or Apache Ant, for understanding XML syntax that is received from outside sources and for verifying any XML syntax that programs create.

• Course Overview and the Use of XML 36mins
• Basic Concepts 18mins
• Complex Content - The Logical Structure 40mins
• Simple Content - Text, White-space and Attribute Values 64mins
• Namespaces - A Globally Unique Naming Scheme 52mins
• Annotations in XML Documents 20mins
• Markup Declarations - The Physical Structure of XML Documents 49mins
• DTD - The Built-in Constraint Language for XML Documents 41mins