Course Number:		X200
Duration:		4 days
Standard Price:		$8,800 for up to 10 students
Government Price:		$7,920 for up to 10 students
Location:		on-site

Description

In this course you will learn advanced features of XML. Through lecture and hands-on lab exercises, you will become fluent in several XML standards and applications.

Outline

Advanced Core XML Concepts

• Internal vs. External Subset
• Parameter Entities
• General Entities
• Conditional Sections
• Character References
• Unparsed External Entities
• Processing Instructions
• Special Attribute Types
• Namespaces in XML
• Default Namespace

Advanced XML Schemas

• Associating Unqualified XML with a Schema
• Associating Qualified XML with a Schema
• Extending Simple Types
• Adding Restrictions
• Understanding Facets
• Attribute Groups
• include and redefine
• Deriving Types by Extension
• Substitution Groups
• Allowing Any Content
• Uniqueness
• Keys and keyrefs
• Documenting Schemas

XLink and XPointer

• Introduction to XLink and XPointer
• Simple Links vs. HTML Links
• Extended Links
• Semantic Attributes
• Behavior Attributes
• Traversal Attributes
• Incorporating XPointer
• Referencing Points
• Referencing Ranges

Resource Description Framework (RDF)

• RDF's Purpose

XPath Syntax

• Document Data Model
• Expressions and Location Paths
• Location Steps
• Specifying Axes
• Predicates
• Types
• Working with Node-Sets
• Type Conversions
• String Functions

XSL Transformations

• XSL
• Modular Stylesheet Strategies
• Namespace Aliasing
• Complex Expressions
• Template Application Hierarchy
• Modes
• Calling Templates by Name
• Constructing Elements
• Outputtung Text
• Numbering
• Copying Elements
• Output Methods
• Variables and Parameters

XSL Formatting Objects

• XSL-FO Overview
• Types of Objects
• Defining Page Masters
• Setting Up the Flow
• Block-Level vs. Inline-Level Objects
• Tables and Lists
• Out-of-Line Objects
• Implementation Issues

XML Internationalization

• Localization Concerns
• Unicode and XML
• Text Declarations
• Character Sets
• Character References
• xml:lang

Effective Document Design

• Design Goals
• Intended Audience
• Document Types
• Validation Methods
• Incorporating Namespaces
• Modular Document Design
• Planning for Extensibility

Parsing XML with DOM

• Document Object Model
• Document Object
• Parsing with DOM
• Key DOM Interfaces

Basic SOAP

• SOAP Overview
• SOAP Envelope
• SOAP Over HTTP
• SOAP Server

Who should attend

XML developers who need to use advanced features of XML.

Prerequisites

Fundamentals of XML and some XML development experience.