XML Overview
- Recommended Duration:
- 1 Day
- Version
- XML 1.0.
- Benefits
- This course shows participants how XML may be used to improve web applications. Students will learn how XML will impact web design and provide a clear understanding of how XML may be used to enhance web pages.
- Audience
- Managers, Developers, and other persons who need to understand what XML is and how it is used.
- Prerequisites
- General information systems background is sufficient. Understanding of the web environment is useful but not required. HTML experience is very useful, but not required.
- Major Topics
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- XML concepts, what it is and what it is not
- XML vocabulary
- Structures
- Document Type Definitions (DTDs)
- XML Schemas
- XML and Style sheets
- CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
- XSL (eXtensible Style Language) and XSLT (XSL Transformations)
- Client-side transformations
- Server-side transformations
- Server-side transformations
- XML-aware applications, databases, and servers
- Introduction to Web services, SOAP, and SAX
- Exercises
- There are no exercises, but several demonstrations of XML will occur.