Day 1

Day 2

Introduction – the XML landscape

• What is the problem?
• Internet Architectures
• XML vs other Markup
• Well formed/valid
• Core Standards
• Applications
• Exercise

XML Extended   - building on problems developed in day 1)

• Xlink
• DOM/SAX

Basic XML Markup (Data)

• Elements
• Attributes
• Entities
• Other components
• Exercises and Case study

Advanced XML Markup (Data)

• Other components (detail) (comments, processing instructions, non-XML data, etc)
• Exercise

System Analysis and Design

• Data Analysis/Modelling
• Client/Server Considerations
• Exercise

Risky Business

• Dealing with technology in transition

• Introduction to Schemas

• Trex, RELAX, Schematron

Basic XML Markup (DTD)

• Elements
• Attributes
• Prolog/forming instances
• Other components
• Exercises and Case Study

Advanced XML Markup (DTD)

• Other components (detail)
• Linking
• Exercise (complete simple DTD for transaction)

Special Topics 1

• Namespaces
• Xpath
• Xpointer

Transformations/Rendering

• Xpath
• XSLT
• Forms
• Exercise and Case Study

Tool Review 1

Tool Review 2