Topics

Description

Hrs

Pre-requisites

The Origins of XML

Markup languages

IT application development or software testing experience

Enrolment or completion in training program in application development or software testing

HTML

SGML

Why so much Hype about XML

XML Structure and Components

Elements, Attributes and Grammar.

Document Type Definitions (DTDs)

Creating DTD

Entities

Introduction to namespaces and schema

Document Object Model (DOM)

XML parsing and available parsers

DOM objects such as Node, NodeList, NodeMap

Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)

Introduction to CSS, formatting into HTML

XSL Transformations (XSLT)

Key concepts

Xpath expressions

Applications using James Clark's XT and Microsoft Component.

XML Applications

Programming in Microsoft environment - IE 5, Microsoft XML Parser, applications to ASP.

Programming in Java enviroment - Java XML API (JAXPI), DOM and SAX parsers

Total

30