Abstract

For Web developers, the eXtensible Markup Language offers far more flexibility for managing content than HTML, while allowing a much simpler website system to be developed than one driven by a database backend.

For application developers, XML is the industry standard format for exchanging messages. XML can encode data from either relational or object-oriented systems and provides useful features such as internationalisation and platform-neutral data exchange.

This tutorial introduces developers to XML, along with some tools for processing and managing XML content: XML Schemas, XSLT, SAX and DOM. The course also examines two popular schemas for XML: DocBook for electronic publishing and UBL for business documents.

Although this course focuses on the XML standards themselves, a theme for the course is Microsoft's upcoming Office 11 application suite. All of the new XML technologies incorporated into Office 11 are covered, and how those technologies can be used to the best advantage. In particular, MS Word's WordML XML-based file format will be examined and techniques for efficient processing of WordML documents using XSLT.

Duration. 5 day hands-on tutorial

Intended Audience. This tutorial would best suit Web designers and application designers who wish to use XML to manage their content or data, using a variety of XML-based processing tools.

Prerequisites. For a participant to get the most from this tutorial, it would be an advantage to possess the following knowledge or experience:

Experience with HTML.
Experience in developing software programs in one or more of the following programming or scripting languages: Java, C, C++, C#, Perl, Tcl, Python or Visual Basic.

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