Book Description
XML Weekend Crash Course covers the ins and outs of XML in 30 sessions. Each session is designed to take 30 minutes to complete, so the Crash Course is an intense 15-hour learning period. You can complete the Crash Course over a single weekend -- but you can also easily adapt the Crash Course sessions to whatever schedule best suits your needs.
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Get Up to Speed on XML — in a Weekend! The big day is Monday — the day you get to show off what you know about XML. The problem is, you're not really up to speed. Maybe it's been a while since you worked with Extensible Markup Language, or maybe you just like a challenge. In any event, we've got a solution for you — XML Weekend Crash Course. Open the book Friday evening and on Sunday afternoon, after completing 30 fast, focused sessions, you'll be able to jump right in and start creating cutting-edge XML solutions. It's as simple as that. The Curriculum Friday Evening: 4 Sessions, 2 Hours
- Introduction to Structured Documents
- Why XML?
- A Simple XML Document
- Using XML on the Web
- Creating XML Documents
- Tour of XML Syntax: Elements and Attributes
- Tour of XML Syntax: Special Constructs
- Working with Well-formed XML Documents
- Specifying an XML Vocabulary with a DTD
- Validating an XML Document and Expanding Its Structure
- Exploring XML DTDs: Specifying Attributes
- Exploring XML DTDs: Creating Cross-References and Links
- Exploring XML DTDs: External Files
- Exploring XML DTDs: Special Characters
- Exploring XML DTDs: Graphics
- Publishing XML Documents: Introduction to XML Transformations
- Simple Transformations with XSLT and XPath
- Introducing the XML Path Language (XPath)
- Using XSLT and XPath to Select XML Content
- Using XSLT and XPath to Fill an HTML Template
- Introduction to Displaying XML Documents
- Formatting XML Documents with Cascading Style Sheets
- Building Web Sites with XSLT — Part I
- Building Web Sites with XSLT — Part II
- Scripting XML
- XHTML: An XML Vocabulary for the Web
- Introduction to XML Schemas — Part I
- Introduction to XML Schemas — Part II
- Using Industry-Standard XML Vocabularies
- Linking and Querying XML Documents
- Turbo XML trial version
- Evaluation versions of XML Spy and WorX for Word
- FrameMaker+SGML and SVGViewer tryout version
- Sample code from the book
- Assessment software to help gauge your progress
