XML Programming Training Class

• Structured Data and Formatting
• The Need for Structured Data
• The Need for Richer Formatting Control
• Advantages of XML
• XML as an International Standard
• SGML, XML, and HTML
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Specifications and Grammars
• XML Applications and Tools
• Creating and Viewing XML Documents
• Transforming XML Documents

• The Concept of Well-Formedness
• Well-Formed Structure
• Elements and Tags
• The XML Declaration
• Editing and Viewing XML Documents
• The Document Type Declaration
• Start and End Tags
• Empty Tags
• Element Nesting
• Element Attributes
• Comments
• Special Characters and Built-In Entities
• CDATA Sections
• Embedded XML
• External XML
• XML Parsers
• Displaying Data in Tables Using DHTML

• The Concept of Data Validation
• Writing Document Type Definition (DTD) Files
• Internal and External DTDs
• Validating Parsers
• The !DOCUMENT Tag
• Specifying Valid Elements and Subelements
• Specifying Valid Attributes
• Specifying Valid Entities
• Specifying Parameter Entities
• The CDATA Type
• The ID, IDREF, and IDREFS Types
• The ENTITY and ENTITIES Types
• The NMTOKEN and NMTOKENS Types
• The NOTATION Type
• Enumeration's
• Conditional Sections
• Creating Internal DTDs
• Linking External DTDs to XML Documents
• Validation Tools

• The Need for Namespaces
• Specifying a Namespace
• URLs, URIs, and URNs
• Qualifying Names
• Namespace Scoping
• The HTML Namespace
• Additional Significant Namespaces

Validating XML Documents with Schemas

• Schema Design Goals (Limitations of DTDs)
• Mixing DTDs and Schemas
• Resolving Name Conflicts with Namespaces
• Schema Composition
• Linking Schemas to XML Documents
• Annotation Declarations
• Element Declarations
• Attribute Declarations
• W3C Schema Data Types
• Specifying Simple Types
• Regular Expressions
• Working with User-Defined Data Types
• Union and List Types
• Specifying Complex Types
• Deriving Complex Types Using Inheritance
• Reusable Groups
• Substitution Groups
• Identity Elements
• Validating Uniqueness
• Validating Required Fields
• Combining and Redefining Schemas

• The Limitations of CSS
• XSL Stylesheet Advantages
• Transformation vs. Formatting
• XSLT and XSL-FO
• XSLT Templates
• XPath Data Model
• Declaring XSL Stylesheets
• Built-In Templates
• Using Templates as Subroutines - xsl:apply-templates
• XPath Expression Syntax
• XPath Functions and Predicates
• Inserting Elements - xsl:element
• Inserting Attributes - xsl:attribute
• Extracting Node Values - xsl:value-of
• Looping - xsl:for-each
• Sorting - The order-by Attribute
• Simple Conditionals - xsl:if
• Multiple Conditionals - xsl:choose, xsl:when, and xsl:otherwise
• Copying Nodes - xsl:copy
• Modular Design Using Named Templates
• Rendering HTML Using XSLT and CSS
• XML-to-XML Transformations

• Purpose of SOAP
• SOAP's Use of XML and Schemas
• Elements of a SOAP Message
• Sending and Receiving SOAP Messages (SOAP Clients and Receivers)
• SOAP Namespaces and Schemas
• Handling SOAP Faults
• Current SOAP Implementations

• Architecture and Advantages of Web Services
• SOAP Messages with Attachments
• Purpose of Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
• WSDL Elements
• Creating and Examining WSDL Files
• Overview of Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI)
• UDDI Registries (Public and Private)
• Core UDDI Elements
• UDDI Classification Schemes and Programming Interfaces
• Deploying and Consuming Web Services
• ebXML Specifications
• ebXML Registry and Repository

• XML Documents with XSL-FO
• Purpose of XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO)
• XSL-FO Documents and XSL-FO Processors
• XSL-FO Namespace
• Page Format Specifiers
• Page Content Specifiers
• Presentation Conversion

• Purpose of a Document Object Model (DOM)
• Core, HTML, and XML DOM
• Data Object Tree
• XMLDOM Parsers
• The Top-Level Document Object
• Primary Nodes and Node Collections (NodeList and NamedNodeMap)

• XMLDOM Data Access Methods
• Core DOM Objects
• Microsoft XMLDOM
• Java API for XML Processing (JAXP)
• Sources of Java XML Parsers
• Installing Parsers
• The Parser Object
• The Document Object
• Loading an XML File
• Traversing the Document Tree
• Using the Performance Monitor to Record and Analyze Performance Data
• Validating and Transforming an XML Document
• Creating an XML Document with DOM

• Purpose of the Simple API for XML (SAX)
• Event-Driven Programming Model
• Types of SAX Parsers
• Obtaining a SAX Parser at Runtime
• Importing Interfaces
• The ContentHandler Interface
• The DocumentHandler Interface
• Declaring Handlers
• Loading and Processing an XML File
• Validating XML Data with the SAX