After Completing This Goal, Students will be Able To

• Describe the syntax of XML documents.
• Describe the purpose of XSLT style sheets
• Describe typical problems that XSLT style sheets are used to solve.

After Completing This Goal, Students will be Able To

• After completing this module, you will be able to use Xpath to traverse nodes in a tree. This includes:
• Using XPath expressions within the Document Object Model (DOM) methods selectNodes() and selectSingleNode().
• Writing XPath location paths to select specific nodes from an XML document.
• Writing conditional expressions in XPath.
• Using XPath operators and functions to write more sophisticated expressions.

After Completing This Goal, Students will be Able To

• After completing this module, you will be able to explain and implement the rules for using templates in XSLT. This includes:
• Applying an XSLT style sheet to an XML document, both statically and dynamically.
• Defining and instantiating template rules to make use of the transformation capabilities of XSLT.

After Completing This Goal, Students will be Able To

• After completing this module, you will be able to sort the contents of an XML document and use style sheets. This includes:
• Specifying a sort order for the result document, alphabetically or numerically, in ascending or descending order.
• Specifing number formats for the result document.
• Specifing whether white space in the result document is stripped or preserved.
• Including one style sheet inside another.
• Importing one style sheet into another.
• Overriding imported template rules in the main style sheet.

After Completing This Goal, Students will be Able To

• After completing this module, you will be able to write code to perform tasks in XSLT. This includes:
• Defining and calling named templates.
• Using named templates to organize a style sheet effectively.
• Defining variables to represent complex expressions.
• Defining parameters for a template rule or a style sheet.
• Performing repetition and conditional logic within a template.
• Using extension elements and extension functions.

After Completing This Goal, Students will be Able To

• After completing this module, you will be able to create and use an XML Schema. This includes:
• Creating an XML Schema definition.
• Applying an XML Schema to an XML document.
• Using an XML Schema to define the grammar of an XML document.
• Using an XML Schema to describe the content data types in an XML document.

After Completing This Goal, Students will be Able To

• After completing this module, you will be able to create a new XML structure by using XSLT. This includes:
• Creating new elements in a result document.
• Defining attributes and namespaces for new elements.
• Inserting numbered text into a result document.
• Adding processing instructions and comments to a result document as necessary.

After Completing This Goal, Students will be Able To

• After completing this module, you will be able to cross-reference documents by using XSLT. This includes:
• Writing XSLT style sheets that access and transform multiple XML documents.
• Defining keys to identify nodes in an XML document.
• Using keys to access nodes in the same XML document or a different XML document.
• Generating cross-references in the result document of an XSLT transformation.

After Completing This Goal, Students will be Able To

• After completing this module, you will be able to use the SAX interfaces to manipulate XML documents. This includes:
• Identifying situations where it is more useful to manipulate XML documents by using SAX than by using the DOM.
• Choosing the correct SAX COM interface and methods to handle typical programming tasks associated with manipulating an XML document.
• Creating an application with Visual Basic that uses SAX to manipulate an XML document.

After Completing This Goal, Students will be Able To

• After completing this module, you will be able to use all of the skills you learned in this course to transform and manage data by using XSLT. This includes:
• Making appropriate use of XSLT and XML technical features.
• Creating XML documents from a database by using Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) in an ASP page.
• Writing style sheets to transform XML into HTML or another XML grammar.
• Applying a style sheet dynamically at the Web browser or the Web server.
• Embedding XML documents and XSLT style sheets as data islands in HTML.
• Using the DOM to modify an XSLT style sheet dynamically.
• Using the DOM to create new XML content dynamically.
• Integrating ASP pages and XSLT style sheets with COM.
• Posting XML data from a Web browser to a Web server.
• Designing and using XML Schemas to validate XML structure and content.