Overview

• The concept of structured data
• Relation to other technologies
• The World Wide Web Consortium
• XML specifications online
• XML tools
• XML and browsers

XML Basics

• XML well-formed structure
• The XML declaration
• Document types and the document type declaration
• Understanding elements, the basic building block of XML
• Element attributes
• Empty elements
• Reserved attribute names
• Managing identifiers using namespaces
• Using entities as content placeholders
• Inserting comments
• Using character data sections for literal content

Constraining XML

• The purpose of self-documentation
• Well-formed documents and valid documents
• Using Document Type Definitions
• Specifying elements in a DTD
• Allowed content models for elements
• Controlling nesting in a DTD
• Specifying attributes in a DTD
• Using XML Schema
• The evolving standard
• Valid vs. schema-valid documents
• Using namespaces with schemas
• Specifying elements and attributes with schemas
• Specifying multiplicities in schemas

XML Content

• Specifying resources with URIs and URLs
• Using ID and IDREF for internal linking
• Tree climbing
• Using the XML Linking Language
• Using stylesheets to manage presentation
• Cascading stylesheets vs. the XSL-FO
• Specifying properties

Advanced XML

• Using XSLT
• Using templates
• Applying XSLT stylesheets
• Using the XML Path Language
• Using web publishing frameworks
• Using XML-RPC
• XML as a configuration description language