Format

Classroom

Duration

3.0 Day(s)

Description

This course provides an introduction to XML (eXtensive Markup Language) and related technologies. Students will gain conceptual and practical knowledge of the concepts that are required to work with XML. The course will build the basic skills to enable architects, designers, analysts, developers, testers, and administrators to use XML and its related technologies in the context of building e-business applications. The course is a 2.5-day classroom course with hands-on lab exercises that reinforce the lecture material.

Audience

This course is designed for information technology individuals, including enterprise application architects, designers, developers, and content modelers and creators.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of Internet technologies is required. Some experience with using HTML would helpful, but is not necessary.

Objectives

After completing this course, you should be able to:
o Describe the important XML standards and recommend their use in business applications
o Define XML documents using namespaces, DTD, or Schema
o Develop and test XML processing applications
o Use XSLT to transform XML documents as necessary
o Identify open areas in XML, such as security, and emerging technologies such as DB support, XHTML, Web Services, XLink, and so forth. Plan for their incorporation into XML processing applications
o Identify where XML fits in application architectures

Contents

Module One of this offering serves as the beginning stepping stone to the otherExtensible Markup Language (XML) modules in the suite. The module will provide a conceptual overview of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and XML as well as provide information on how XML will be used in the near future, its potential, and explain key initiatives currently underway that will use XML to enable more functionality.
Module two will provide information on what makes up a well-formed XML document and will also provide an opportunity for hands-on exercise creating an XML document. Additionally, the module will provide information on how to create a Document Type Definition (DTD) and how to use a DTD with an XML document. Finally, this module will provide students with information on how to install and use the XML Parser for Java, as well as make students aware of other parsers available today.
Module three provides more advanced topical information for the students. The module will provide information on Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL), Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), and how these technologies relate to and work with XML. Additionally, this module will provide information of what can be done with XML today