Course Content
Introduction
- What is XML?
- Background and History of XML
- XML versus HTML
- The uses and applications of XML.
Composing XML Documents
- Syntax and composition.
- XML Spy
- Defining structure
- Valid and Well Formed documents.
- Parsing and validating XML documents
- Namespaces and their uses
Data Binding
- Creating a data island
- Table data binding
- Single-record data binding
- Using Paging
- Hierarchical record sets
Document Type Definitions (DTD's)
- Internal and External DTD's
- Document Type Declaration
- Element Type Declaration
- Attribute List Declaration
- General Entities
- Parameter Entities
- Notations
XML Schemas
- The Rules of XML Schemas
- XML Schema Tags
- Simple Data Types
- Using Patterns
- Useful Functions
- Allowing Choices of Elements
- Handling Attributes
- Handling Empty Elements
XSL Transformation
- What is Transformation?
- When is it needed?
- Cascading Style Sheets and XML
- Extensible Style sheet Language (XSL)
- XSL Syntax and composition.
- Defining Simple Types and Complex Types
- Using SAXON to transform XML documents
- Transforming an XML document into an HTML document using XSL.
- Transforming XML documents into XML documents with a different structure.
- Transforming element based to attribute based XML (and vice versa)
The Document Object Model
- Syntax of DOM
- The DOM Structure
- Manipulating XML documents using the Document Object Model
- Useful Properties for all Node Types
- NodeList Objects
XSLT Basics
- eXtensible Stylesheet Language
- An XSLT Stylesheet
- xsl:template
- xsl:value-of
- Whitespace and xsl:text
- Output Types
- Text
- XML
- HTML
- XSLT Elements and Attributes
- xsl:element
- xsl:attribute
- Attributes and Curly Brackets
XPath
- XPath in XSLT
- XPath Expression
- XPath Terminology
- Context Node
- Current Node
- Context Size
- Proximity Position
- Location Paths
- Axis
- Node Test
- Predicate
- Accessing Nodes
- Abbreviated Syntax
- XPath Functions
- XPath Operators
Flow Control in XSLT
- Looping in XSLT
- Sorting with XSLT
- Looping and Sorting
- Conditions with XSLT
XSLT Templates, Parameters and Variables
- xsl:apply-templates
- xsl:call-template
- Passing Parameters
- Removing Content
- Template Modes
- Template Priority
- Default Priorities
- Assigning Priorities
- XSLT Variables
Multiple XML and XSLT Documents
- Including XSLTs
- Importing XSLTs
- Conflict resolution
- The document( ) Function
SOAP
- Advantages of SOAP
- The SOAP Specification
- HTTP
- SOAP Request Document
- SOAP Response Document
