XML Intro

What Will I Learn?

•  Understand the meta-language

•  Eliminate restrictions in HTML

•  Document Type Definition (DTD)

•  XInclude, sitemaps, RSS, schema, XSLT

•  Building templates

•  Free digital course assets

•  Free post-course helpdesk support

Day One

Introduction

• XML, XHTML and HTML

• Why use XML?

• The Document Object model

• Modelling XML documents

• Well-formed and valid documents

Basic rules of XML

• Elements, Attributes and Values

• XML declaration

• The Root Element

• Adding comments

• Default entities

• Displaying tags as text

• Namespaces

Document Type Definition (DTD)

• Internal DTD

• External DTD

• Personal external DTD

• Public external DTD

• Occurrence operators

XInclude (NEW)

• Including XML documents within XML

• Fallbacks

• Parsing include files

XML sitemaps (NEW)

• What are XML sitemaps

• SEO benefits of XML sitemaps

• Building XML sitemaps

Day Two

Really Simple Syndication (RSS)

• Push vs Pull technology

• RSS readers

• Transforming your RSS

• Browsers and RSS transformation

An overview of XML schema

• Simple and complex types

• Schema namespaces

• Target location

• Simple schema

• Simple schema location

• Annotating schemas

• Validating with schemas

Introduction to XSLT

• Source tree

• Style sheet

• Result tree

• Parsers

• Template rules

• Literals

• Xpath

Building templates

• Looping through your XML document

• Formatting your template

• Template match

• Value-of select

• Extracting attributes

• Formatting tables

• Sorting

Microsoft Excel and XML support (NEW)

• Editing XML files with Excel

• Creating schemas for Excel XML

• Importing XML into Excel

• Exporting XML from excel