Overview
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Get started with Extensible Markup Language (XML). Learn about the basic rules of XML, explore its syntax, and review more advanced topics such as styling your XML with CSS.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know
- Exercise files
- Setting up the dev tools
- What is XML?
- XML technologies
- Describing data with XML
- Advantages and drawbacks of XML
- Real world examples of XML
- Types of XML content
- Proper XML syntax
- Valid documents
- XML namespaces
- Our first XML file
- XML and CSS styles
- Styling XML tags
- Advanced CSS with XML
- Quick intro to the DOM
- Discovering document content
- Creating document content
- Bringing it all together
- What is XPath?
- Taking XPath for a spin
- What is XSLT?
- Using XSLT with XML
- Simple XSLT
- XSLT and CSS
- Repeating items
- Conditional logic
- Sorting data
- What is a DTD?
- DTD syntax
- Declaring elements
- Declaring attributes
- Building a DTD for a business card
- Associating a DTD with XML data
- What is XML schema?
- Anatomy of a schema
- Declaring elements
- Declaring attributes
- Building a schema for a business card
- Next steps
