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XML Intro Course

Gain practical XML skills for web development and data integration on this two-day course.

Covering XML fundamentals, document validation, XSLT transformations and RSS feeds.

Gain practical XML skills for web development and data integration on this two-day course. Covering XML fundamentals, document validation, XSLT transformations and RSS feeds.

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XML Intro training course

XML Intro Course

Structure, store and exchange data efficiently using XML on this two-day practical introduction course.

You'll learn the fundamentals of XML and how it relates to HTML and XHTML, how to write well-formed and valid XML documents, how to work with elements, attributes, values and the document object model, how to use DTDs and XML Schema for document validation, how to transform XML using XSLT stylesheets, how to work with RSS syndication feeds, and how to apply XML in real web development contexts.

Suitable for web developers and technical professionals.

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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

Who is this course for?

For web developers and technical professionals who need to work with XML for data exchange and web development. Requires our HTML and CSS Introduction course or equivalent HTML knowledge.

10 Reviews
9.8/10 Satisfaction
100% Recommend

I'm really happy and please with all the aspects of the course, thank you.

Elvis – 23 January 2024

Really pleased with course. A good overview of XML. I think the breaks were well timed. Start and Finish times were well thought out

Lennie – 23 January 2024

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