XML – Level 1

Duration: 8 hours

Prerequisite(s):
Beginning HTML 4
Intermediate HTML 4

Course Outline:

Lesson 1: Origins of XML

Origins of XML, XML: The best of all worlds

Lesson 2: Creating well formed XML documents

XML document markup, Creating an XML markup language: elements, attributes, and entities, Creating an XML markup language: processing instructions, character data, and comments, XML and HTML

Lesson 3: Creating valid XML documents

Introduction to the Document Type Definition (DTD), Creating a DTD, Validating XML against a DTD

Lesson 4: Displaying XML documents in IE5

Style sheets, Cascading style sheets, XSL

Lesson 5: XML Linking

Linking the “old fashion” way using HTML namespaces, XLink and XPointer