1 Day Course

Course Overview:

• Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
• Explain the difference between well-formed and valid XML, and use Microsoft's XML parser to validate an XML document.
• Model a document's structure.
• Write a DTD that expresses a document's structure.
• Explain the difference between DTDs and XML schema.

Prerequisites

Students enrolling in this course should understand basic XML concepts such as elements, attributes, and entities. To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the Element K course, XML: An Introduction (Second Edition), or have equivalent knowledge.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Introduction to Valid XML

• Topic 1A: Minimal Structural Requirements for XML Topic
• 1B: Valid XML

Lesson 2: Document Modeling

• Topic 2A: Planning Stage Topic
• 2B: How to Model Information

Lesson 3: Writing a DTD

• Topic 3A: Internal and External DTDs
• Topic 3B: DTD Syntax
• Topic 3C: Miscellaneous DTD Concerns

Lesson 4: The Future of DTDs

• Topic 4A: Overview of Schema