Training offering

Introduction to XML and Related Technologies

Description

This course provides conceptual and practical knowledge of the fundamentals of XML and related technologies in the context of building e-business applications. Lectures cover the reasons for using XML, XML syntax, industry standards and templates as provided by Document Type Definitions (DTD), XML Schemas and their advantages over DTDs, namespaces and their purposes, extracting information using XPath, transforming XML documents using XML Stylesheet Transformation (XSLT), and the XQuery query language. Lecture materials are reinforced with hands-on lab exercises.

Objectives

After completing this course, students should be able to:

Differentiate between HTML and XML and their use in e-business applications

Enumerate the rules of a well-formed XML document

Describe the use of a Document Type Definition (DTD) with an XML document

Create DTDs describing the validation rules for specific XML instances

Describe the use of an XML schema with an XML document

Create XML schemas describing the validation rules for specific XML instances

Describe the use of XML namespaces in the management of the symbol space of an XML document

Declare and use XML namespaces in an XML document

Describe the use of XML Path Language (XPath) with an XML document

Create XPath expressions that locate specific information in an XML instance.

Describe the use of XSL in the processing of XML documents

Create an XSL transform and use it to transform an XML document into some other kind of document

Describe XQuery and its use and syntax, with some examples

Use Rational Application Developer to write XML documents, DTDs, XML Schemas, and XPath expressions

Use the Rational Application Developer XSLT debugger to run and debug XSL transforms

Participants

This course is designed for application developers and technical managers who wish to understand the role of XML in their applications.

Prerequisite(s)

There are no prerequisites for this course. Attendees are not expected to be programmers, or to know Java.

Programme

Issues in electronic information exchange

What is XML?

Overview of IBM Rational Application Developer

Document type definitions (DTDs)

XML namespaces

XML schema

XPath

XSL transformation

Xquery

Options

WebSphere/SOA/XML Certification

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