Advanced XML Self-Study Course

Advanced XML will teach the student to structure XML using schemas, and to enhance schemas. In addition the student will gain an understanding of XSLT and XSL-FO syntax, working with XML standards, working with APIs and using W3C standards to extend XML.
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Course Topics Structuring XML with Schemas

• Create an XML document
• Identify the meanings of the terminology used by W3C to describe datatypes
• Use more advanced schema features to model data accurately
• Create a basic XML schema document
• Identify the characteristics of the principal content models for XML

Advanced Schemas

• Derive from simple and complex types
• Refine datatype derivation using substitution, abstract types, and final types
• Use regular expressions with the pattern facet to validate instance data
• Create user-defined types
• Recognize how to declare and use namespaces
• Recognize how to implement namespace qualification
• Identify how to use mechanisms to reuse schemas

Transforming and formatting XML

• Use template rules to set up an XSL transformation
• Identify the xpath syntax that enables you to navigate and select data in XML tree hierarchies
• Use XSL-FO to format XML data
• Use XSLT and XSL-FO syntax in documents used to transform XML documents
• Use XSLT to transform data from an XML document and output it as XML
• Identify the XSL elements that support the sorting and grouping of XML documents
• Identify the XSL elements that support the inclusion and merging of multiple and master style sheets
• Use XSLT syntax to perform advanced transformations of XML documents

Querying, Navigating, and Linking XML Data

• Use xquery FLWR expressions
• Recognize how xpath 2.0 functions can be used to navigate and search XML documents
• Use xquery with xpath expressions to retrieve data from an XML document
• Identify how to use xpath 2.0 functions for regular expressions
• Use xlinks and xpointers to create links between XML documents

XML API's

• Identify the node types that comprise a DOM tree structure
• Use methods provided by the DOM interfaces
• Use DOM methods and properties to process XML
• Outline the key features of the simple API for XML
• Use the interfaces and methods of the SAX API
• Process XML using SAX

Extending XML

• Use XML identity constraints to implement relational database-style data integrity
• Identify the roles of key SQL/XML functions
• Recognize how to migrate HTML pages to XHTML
• Identify the key XML elements used to construct a SOAP message and SOAP schema
• Identify the syntax used to build a WSDL document
• Facilitate web services by creating WSDL documents and SOAP messages
• Identify the SML Encryption elements used to encrypt data
• Recognize the structure of an XBRL file and how XBRL is used to process business information

Course Objectives