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XML - Introduction

1. Getting Started

• XML - What is XML?
• XML- related technologies
• Overview of tools for working with XML

2. How XML Is Used

• XML - Describing information with XML
• XML - Advantages and drawbacks of XML
• XML - Real-life XML examples

3. Basic Rules of XML

• XML - XML file contents
• XML - Proper XML syntax
• XML - Valid documents
• XML - Namespaces in XML
• Whitespace handling

4. Starting to Work with XML

• XML - Your first XML file
• XML - Associating an XML file with a CSS stylesheet
• XML - Styling XML tags with CSS
• XML - Working with XML and CSS2

5. XML and Internet Explorer Data Binding

• XML - Introduction: what are data islands?
• XML - Defining a data island and binding to layout
• XML - Styling data islands with CSS
• XML - Advanced data islands
• XML - Exercise: data paging
• XML - Exercise: single-record binding

6. Using the DOM to Manipulate XML

• XML - Introduction to the DOM
• XML - Discovering what's new in the DOM
• XML - Extracting information and manipulating data
• XML - Creating new document content
• XML - Bringing it all together: the DOM, XML pages, and HTML pages

7. XML and XPath

• XML - What is XPath?
• XML - Taking XPath for a spin

8. Overview of XSLT

• XML - What is XSLT?
• XML - Styling XML with XSLT

9. Real World XSLT Examples

• XML - Simple XSLT styling
• XML - Using XSLT with CSS
• XML - Repeating items
• XML - Conditional logic
• XML - Sorting and rearranging XML data

10. Creating Document Type Definitions

• XML - What is a DTD?
• XML - DTD syntax
• XML - Declaring elements
• XML - Declaring attributes
• XML - Exercise: defining the DTD for our Business Card XML file
• XML - Associating an external DTD with an XML document

11. Creating XML Schema Definitions

• XML - What is XML Schema, and how is it different from other DTDs?
• XML - Anatomy of a schema
• XML - Declaring elements
• XML - Declaring attributes
• XML - Defining a Schema for our Business card

12. Additional XML Processing

• XML - Introduction to SAX (Simple API for XML)
• XML - How SAX works
• XML - Working with XML and PHP
• XML - Exercise: building a list of favorite links with SAX and PHP

13. Tools

• XML - Tools used in this title