1 Day Course

Course Overview:

• Explain the differences between HTML, SGML and XML.
• Create well formed XML.
• Create valid XML.
• CreateDTD.
• Display XML documents inbrowser using CSS.
• Display XML documents inbrowser using XSL.
• Link to files outside of an XML document.

Prerequisites

This course is designed for a person who possesses previous HTML or other markup language experience. To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the Element K course HTML 4.01: Level 1 (Second Edition), or have equivalent knowledge.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Origins of XML

• Origins of XML
• XML: The best of all worlds

Lesson 2: Creating well formed XML documents

• XML document markup
• Creating an XML markup language: elements, attributes, and entities
• Creating an XML markup language: processing instructions, character data, and comments
• XML and HTML

Lesson 3: Creating valid XML documents

• Introduction to the Document Type Definition (DTD)
• CreatingDTD
• Validating XML againstDTD

Lesson 4: Displaying XML documents in IE5

• Style sheets
• Cascading style sheets
• XSL

Lesson 5: XML Linking

• Linking the “old fashion” way using HTML namespaces
• XLink and XPointer

For more information on Acumen Classes
Please contact Deb Wagnon 314.333.3330
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1750 South Brentwood Blvd.
Suite 200
Saint Louis, MO 63119