Introduction to XML: Syntax, XPath and Namespaces

Objectives

To provide the knowledge and skills required to create, validate and manipulate information in XML (eXtensible Markup Language) format, and to create and use XPath queries on XML documents.

Targeted audience

Content architects, programmers and content creators.

Content

• Overview: XML vs. SGML vs. HTML
• Well-formed XML: syntax rules and syntactical analyzers
• XML applications
• Information sources and tools for creating XML content
• Unicode and XML text
• Vocabularies and namespaces
• XPath: definition of a path, the principal axes, predicates, selectors and XPath functions
• Valid XML: associating a document type definition (DTD) or an XML schema with an XML document
• XML: associate an XSL transformation (XSLT) or a CSS style sheet