COIN78 - XML Course Outline
Welcome to COIN78, Introduction to XML. This page represents the outline for Introduction to XML, taught hybrid and online in the fall through spring quarters. Summer is online only. Each week is linked to the tutorial files, as well as PowerPoint presentations that you can download and print. Each lecture is a PowerPoint presentation, following the Visual QuickStart Guide to XML very closely. To download PowerPoint files, right click on the link in Internet Explorer. You will need the PowerPoint application to print these files. Given the many approaches to learning XML, you can really start anywhere after you have learned the basics. The assignments for the physical and online sections are identical.
Lesson 1: Overview of XML, XHTML, Course objectives, assignments, and final project
- Overview of XML
- Introduction to XHTML
- History of markup languages
Lesson 2: Writing basic XML documents
- Elements and attributes
- Nested data models
- Empty data models
Lesson 3: Developing your your XML model
- Developing data models and structure
- Combining attributes and nested elements
- Good XML habits, and avoiding bad habits
Lesson 4: DTDs
- DTDs for empty and nested models
- Entities
- Assertion networks
Lesson 5 : CSS
- XML and CSS
- Using the HTML namespace
- Rendering images and links
Lesson 6: XSD - Schema
- Introduction to XML schema
- Writing schema for nested models
- Writing schema for empty models
Lesson 7: XSD - Namespaces
- Introduction to XML namespaces
- Declaring and using XML namespaces
- Examples of XML namespaces
Lesson 8: XSL and XSLT
- Introduction to XSL
- Introduction to XSLT
- Rendering XML with XSL
Lesson 9: XPath - Patterns and Expressions
- Introduction to XPath
- Using XPath with XSL
- XML Inclusion (XInclude)
Lesson 10: Google XML sitemaps
- What are XML sitemaps?
- Writing a simple sitemap
- Installing your XML sitemap
Lesson 11: RSS and Meta data
- RSS
- RDF
- XHTML metadata
- Semantic Web
Lesson 12: XML Family of Specifications
- Family of specifications
- Advanced XML applications
- Web services
- KML
Please note that academic quarter is twelve sessions for fall through spring. I have written this course with one week of 'play' in the schedule, such that the chapters at the end of the course can be combined together as needed for time. The summer session is accelerated because it is only 6 weeks so it does not have the one week of 'play'.
