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77-940 XML An Introduction

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XML: An Introduction

Course Specifications

Course number: 077 940

Software version number: 5.0

Course length: 1 day

Hardware/software required to run this course

This course requires a Pentium PC with 32MB of RAM. Windows 95/98 or NT is required. In addition,

the latest version of Internet Explorer 5.0 must be installed.

Course description

Overview: Students will learn how to create well formed and valid XML documents.

Prerequisites: HTML Level 1 and Level 2 or equivalent knowledge.

Delivery method: Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured handson

activities.

Benefits: Students will learn how to create well-formed and valid XML documents and display them in

Internet Explorer 5.0.

Target student: Students enrolling in this course should understand Internet basics and level 2 HTML.

What's next: Students who want to learn advanced features can take Cascading Style Sheets.

Performance-based objectives

Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to

evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

 

Explain the differences between HTML, SGML and XML.

 

Create well formed XML.

 

Create valid XML.

 

Create a DTD.

 

Display XML documents in a browser using CSS.

 

Display XML documents in a browser using XSL.

 

Link to files outside of an XML document.

Course content

Lesson 1: Origins of XML

Origins of XML

XML: The best of all worlds

Lesson 2: Creating well formed XML documents

XML document markup

Creating an XML markup language: elements, attributes, and entities

Creating an XML markup language: processing instructions, character data, and comments

XML and HTML

Lesson 3: Creating valid XML documents

Introduction to the Document Type Definition (DTD)

Creating a DTD

Validating XML against a DTD

Lesson 4: Displaying XML documents in IE5

Style sheets

Cascading style sheets

XSL

Lesson 5: XML Linking

Linking the “old fashion” way using HTML namespaces

XLink and XPointer

 

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