XML Introduction (3 days)

Suitable for web developers with a good knowledge of HTML and a reasonable all-round awareness of web development and scripting/programming.

Basics
	Overview SGML HTML Need for XM Goals of XML Writing XML Documents Case sensitivity The Root Element Well-formed XML Documents Rules for tags Rules for Attribute Values Structures of XML Documents Displaying XML Documents XML Vs HTML Benefits of XML

Well formed XML documents
	Introduction Creating a Simple XML Document An XML file in a web browser Assigning Meaning to XML Tags A Well-formed XML document The Document Element XML Elements Attributes Comments Processing Instructions CDATA sections Basic XML Rules

DTDs
	Overview of XML validation Valid Documents XML Validating Parsers Types of DTD's Declaring Elements Empty Elements Elements with only character data Elements with any content Elements with children (sequences) Attribute Declaration Default attribute value Implied attribute Required attribute Fixed attribute value Parsed Entity Unparsed Entity Predefined Entities Internal and External Entities

Introduction to XML Schema
	When to use XML schema Schemas and DTDs compared Schema elements and attributes Declaring simple elements Declaring attributes Defining complex elements Complex empty elements Complex text-only elements

	Mixed complex elements String, date and numeric data types

XSL Transformation
	What is XSLT? The xsl:stylesheet element The xsl:template Element and match attribute The xsl:apply-template Element and select attribute The xsl:value-of element The xsl:for-each element Matching Nodes Matching the root node using the value "/" Matching the Children of a particular node Matching the descendants Applying a style to a single element XSL Sorting Using the order-by attribute Using xsl:sort element XSL Filtering Using xsl:if element Using xsl:choose element Merging multiple style sheets