XML Online Course

XML from Basic Online Course

Thanh Pham - NIIT Vietnam, thanh.phamhong[at]niit.edu.vn, http://yht4ever.blogspot.com/

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Course Registration

No need to register for this course, just download course materials (presentation, hands-on labs, and homework's) and learn it by yourself. Any questions please send to my email thanh.phamhong[at]niit.edu.vn with [XML] as the prefix for mail’s subject.

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Course Outline

This course is divided into 6 weeks; each week has a presentation slide, demo and review questions. Advance topics will be covered in next course. The contents are constantly being changed and improved.
Week 1:

1. XML Introduction
2. Document Type Definition - DTD
3. Week 1 Review

Week 2:

1. XML Schema
2. Week 2 Review

Week 3:

1. Rendering XML Document (CSS, XSLT, XSL-FO)
2. XML Path Language (XPath)
3. Week 3 Review

Week 4:

1. Document Object Model - DOM
2. Processing DOM in Java
3. Week 4 Review

Week 5:

1. Simple API for XML - SAX
2. XLink, XPointer
3. Week 5 Review

Week 6:

1. Webservice overview
2. Database Handling with XML
3. Week 6 Review

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XML Resources on the Web (Thanks to Mr. Sang Sin from Sun Microsystems)

• Tutorials

• XML Basics (XML, DTD) Tutorials
  
  
  • XML Tutorial by Jon Bosak (The Sun Engineer who started the whole XML phenomenon - Covers XML historical background)
    
  • http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/Languages/XML/Tutorials/Intro/ (Selena Sol's three part tutorial covering "Understanding XML", "XML Syntax", and "DTD" - Good intro material to XML)
    
  • http://www.xml.com/pub/a/98/10/guide0.html (XML.COM's tutorial on XML basics)
    
  • http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnxml/chapter/ch02.html ("Markup and Core Concepts" chapter from "Learning XML", O'Reilly)
    
  • Annotated XML Specification
    
  • W3Schools.com
    
  • http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/(Elliotte Rusty Harold's popular XML site)
  
  

• XML Programming with Java Tutorials
  
• XML and Java Tutorial from Sun Microsystems (Good introductory for SAX and DOM)

• XSL and XSLT
• http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/08/holman/index.html (XML.COM's well-written tutorial)
  
• http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/06/07/transforming/index.html
  
• http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-xslt/?dwzone=x?open&l=277,t=gr,p=xslt (Short article on XSLT written by Michael Kay who wrote SAXON, easy to read)
  
• Xpath
  
• http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xmlnut/chapter/ch09.html("XPath" chapter from "XML in a Nutshell", O'Reilly)
  
• XLink
  
• http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/09/xlink/index.html (XML.COM's well-written tutorial)
  
• W3C XML Schema
  
• http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/11/29/schemas/part1.html(XML.COM's relatively detailed XML schema tutorial)
  
• http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/schemas.html (Robin Cover's introduction to various schema languages)
  
• Web Publishing Framework
  
• http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javaxml/chapter/ch09.html (Sample chapter from "Java and XML", O'Reilly)
  
• XHTML
  
  
  • http://www.utoronto.ca/ian/books/xhtml2/refs.html
    
  
  
• XML with JSP/Servlet
  
  
  • http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/html/JSPXML.html (Whitepaper describing how to use XML with JSP)
    
  
  
• XML and JMS
  
  
  • http://www.javaworld.com/jw-02-2000/jw-02-jmsxml.html (JavaWorld Tutorial on using JMS and XML)
    
  
  
• XML and Database
  
  
  • http://www.rpbourret.com/xml/XMLAndDatabases.htm#intro
    
  
  
• SOAP
  
  
  • http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2001/jw-0330-soap.html (Fairly well-written article in JavaWorld)
    
  • http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/ (SOAP 1.1 Specification)
    
  
  
• XML-RPC
  
  
  • http://www.xmlrpc.com/
    
  
  
• XML Query
  
  
  • http://www.w3.org/XML/Query
    
  
  
• ebXML
  
  
  • http://www.ebxml.org/
    
  
  
• Emerging Java APIs for XML
  
  
  • http://java.sun.com/jcp
    
  
  
• XML Tools
  
  
  • http://www.xmlsoftware.com/
  
  

• Articles

• XML and J2EE

• FAQ sites

• http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/Languages/XML/Resources.html#books

• XML related sites

• http://www.xml.com/
  
• http://www.ebxml.org/
  
• http://www.xml.org/
  
• java.sun.com/xml (Sun's Java and XML site)
  
• http://www.sun.com/xml
  
• http://www.apache.org/ (Open-source XML projects)
  
• www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/ (IBM's alphaworks site with lots of XML developer related info. and tools)
  
• java.sun.com/javaone/javaone00/replay.html (JavaOne2000 has many Java and XML sessions that can be viewed and listened - go to XML section)

• XML newsgroups

• http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ (Industry-wide XML newsgroup hosted by xml.org )
  
• http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/xml-interest.html

• Tools
  
  
  
  • Editors (XML.COM's comprehensive tools guide on editors)
    
  • Browsers (XML.COM's comprehensive tools guide on browsers)
    
  • Parsers (XML.COM's comprehensive tools guide on parsers)
    
  • XML.COM's tools resouce guide
    
  • Parsers (By Ken Sall - categorized as "non-validating" and "validating" parsers)
    
  • Parsers and Parsing toolkits (By Robin Cover from OASIS)
    
  • Finale Music Viewer Plug-in
    
  • Online validation tool
    
  • Forte for Java Community Edition (Highly recommended and freely downloadable Java IDE)
  • http://www.javapassion.com/xml/www.xmlsoftware.com (Very well organizaed site for XML related tools)
  
  

• Example Codes
  

• XML in a NutShell Example code
  
• Java and XML Example code