XML: A Comprehensive Introduction

Introduction and Overview

• XML in the real world
• The benefits of XML
• XML application deployment XML compared to HTML
• Markup language vs. markup specification

XML components

• Declaration
• Root
• Element
• Attribute
• Entity

The rules of well-formed documents

• Differentiating between well-formed and valid documents
• Using XML tools

Benefits of namespaces

• Assigning Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) to namespaces XML in the enterprise
• Relating XML and metadata
• Positioning XML in a 3-tier architecture

Locating Documents with Xlink, Xpointer and Xbase

Applying Style with Extensible Stylesheet Languange (XSL)

Applying style to data

• Design rules
• XSL elements Exploiting the capabilities of XSL
• Comparing and contrasting CSS with XSL
• Processing documents with pattern matching and templates
• Programming with XSL functions
• Filtering and sorting data with XSL

Transforming XML

• Converting XML to HTML using XSL
• XML-to-XML transformation using XSL VALIDATING XML
• Validating documents with Document Type Definition (DTD)

Writing DTDs

• Embedding business rules into DTDs
• DTD syntax and components
• Validating elements and attributes XML Schemas

Limitations of DTDs

• Moving DTDs to XML Schemas
• Writing XML to validate XML
• Modeling data with XML Schemas

• Relational database technologies
• Options for storing XML in and retrieving XML from databases
• Accessing databases using middleware XML in the enterprise
• XML data applications
• Maximizing the benefits of XML repositories

DOM fundamentals

The role of the DOM

• The DOM as an object hierarchical structure Processing the DOM

Navigating XML documents

• Modifying XML with the DOM
• Creating new XML documents using the DOM Manipulating XML with the DOM

Combining XML documents

• Converting XML to HTML using the DOM

SAX Parsing

• Event Handling with SAX

• The Authentication Codes and Digital Signatures
• Canonicalization Choices
• Digest and Signature Choices
• The KeyInfo Element
• Encryption - RSA, DSA, DH, IDEA & PGP

Options in transferring XML documents

• The role of Active Server Pages (ASP) and Java Server Pages (JSP)
• XML processing with ASP and JSP
• Sending XML between ASP and JSP applications
• Introduction to Web services

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