This course is an intensive, hands-on introduction to XML, DTDs, Schemas, XPath, and XSLT. It is a balanced mixture of theory and practical labs designed to take students through the basic fundamentals of XML. Beginning with the basics of XML, this course then moves into coverage of both DTDs and XML Schemas, and also covers how to use XPath and XSLT to transform XML documents into other documents such as HTML documents or other XML documents.

Anyone needing an introduction to concepts and technologies associated with XML and its related recommendations.

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Create well-formed XML documents
• Create Data Type Definitions (DTDs)
• Validate an XML document with a DTD
• Create XML Schemas
• Validate an XML document with a Schema
• Create XSLT templates to transform XML Documents into HTML
• Use XML Path to retrieve parts of or the whole content of XML Documents

• Introduction
• Well Formed XML
• Document Type Definitions
• Introduction To Schema
• Schemas: Simple Declarations
• Schemas: Simple Type Definitions
• Schemas: Complex Type Definitions
• Introduction To XSLT
• XPath
• XSLT Basics

None. Previous experience or knowledge of HTML is helpful but not essential.