COIN78 - XML (eXtensible Markup Language)
Welcome to COIN78, Introduction to XML. The syllabus, course outline, tutorials, and links to the assignments can be accessed from this page. This website provides the necessary material for Winter Quarter 2012. Online students should also read the online instructions. Please note that the assignments schedule has changed.
You should read the Assignments outline, and download simple.xml, edit the data fields in Notepad, and email it to me, pschales@gmail.com, by by the end of the first week. This is your "assignment zero", which starts your journey through this course.
Given the many approaches to learning XML, you can really start anywhere after you have learned the basics. The assignments for physical and online sections are the same. You can view examples of "best practice" work of previous students by looking at the "example files" page.
If you are not enrolled in this class, you may use this website as a guide to learning about XML. The example files are provided on a "buyer beware basis". This site has a lot of information, and is being updated. Please send comments as needed.
Course information
- Online Instructions - please read before you start the course
- Syllabus (pdf) - course syllabus
- Course summary - please review this before you start the course
- Course outline - course outline
- Assignments outline - summary of all assignments
- Schedule - assignment dates
- Grading - course grading
- Submitting assignments - rules on how to submit an assignment
- Textbook - recommended for this course
- Presentations folder - power point presentations
- Example files - xml examples
- XML Links - references, books, and software
- Resources - video tutorials
Assignments
- Assignment zero - Configuring simple.xml and emailing it to me
- Assignment one - Building your XML data model
- Assignment two - Creating a DTD
- Assignment three - Working with CSS
- Assignment four - Creating an XML schema
- Assignment five - Working with XSL
- Extra credit - XML sitemaps and RSS
- Final writing assignment - overview of XML concepts and technology
Lessons
- Lesson 1 - What is XML? What is XHTML?
- Lesson 2 - XML syntax and data structure
- Lesson 3 - Creating an XML data model
- Lesson 4 - Working with DTDs and assertion networks
- Lesson 5 - Working with CSS and HTML namespace
- Lesson 6 - Working with schema
- Lesson 7 - Working with XML namespaces
- Lesson 8 - Working with XSL
- Lesson 9 - Using XSL to render an XML file
- Lesson 10 - Building an XML site map
- Lesson 11 - RSS, RDF, and XHTML metadata
- Lesson 11 - Semantic Web and RDFa
- Lesson 12 - Review of XML and family of XML specifications
- Lesson 12 - Keyhole Markup Language (KML) and Google Earth
Web Tutorials and Presentations
- Using ETUDES - a good tutorial to start using our course management system
- XML overview - an index to all the XML tutorials at w3schools.com
- XSLT tutorial - a nice gentle start to XSL and XSLT
- XML Example Files - an excellent compendium of both simple and advanced XML files
- W3Schools - a wonderful set of tutorials that cover many aspects of XML
- Web Services ppt
