XML Intro

Gain valuable, practical XML skills for web development and data integration.

Learn how to code XML documents for a wide variety of data exchange applications.

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XML Intro

XML Intro

Learn how to efficiently use Extensible Markup Language (XML) as a powerful tool for structuring and organising data. Understand how XML enables efficient data exchange, storage, and retrieval across various applications, databases, and platforms.

Discover how XML is used to create sitemaps, manage information, and facilitate seamless integration between different systems. Acquire the skills to harness XML's potential and boost your ability to work with data effectively in a wide range of industries and projects.

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Two Days

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10:00 - 16:30 GMT

  • Key Learning Points

  • icon How XML enables structured data organisation
  • icon Master well-formed and valid documents
  • icon Understand XML namespaces and entities
  • icon Create XML sitemaps for SEO benefits
  • icon Explore XSLT and template rules

If attending an online course you must have a licensed copy of any software required and access to a suitable computer.

You'll need to have attended our HTML & CSS Intro course before attending this class or have equivalent knowledge of HTML.

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Course Outline

1

Introduction

XML, XHTML and HTML

Why use XML?

The Document Object model

Modelling XML documents

Well-formed and valid documents

2

Basic rules of XML

Elements, Attributes and Values

XML declaration

The Root Element

Adding comments

Default entities

Displaying tags as text

Namespaces

3

Document Type Definition (DTD)

Internal DTD

External DTD

Personal external DTD

Public external DTD

Occurrence operators

4

XInclude (NEW)

Including XML documents within XML

Fallbacks

5

XML sitemaps (NEW)

What are XML sitemaps

SEO benefits of XML sitemaps

Building XML sitemaps

6

Really Simple Syndication (RSS)

Push vs Pull technology

RSS readers

Transforming your RSS

Browsers and RSS transformation

7

An overview of XML schema

Simple and complex types

Schema namespaces

Target location

Simple schema

Simple schema location

Annotating schemas

Validating with schemas

8

Introduction to XSLT

Source tree

Style sheet

Result tree

Parsers

Template rules

Literals

Xpath

9

Building templates

Looping through your XML document

Formatting your template

Template match

Value-of select

Extracting attributes

Formatting tables

Sorting

10

Microsoft Excel and XML support (NEW)

Editing XML files with Excel

Creating schemas for Excel XML

Importing XML into Excel

Exporting XML from excel

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Define your direction with purpose, aligning your learning journey to personal and career goals.

2

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3

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