CA277 XML and its Applications

Sample Syllabus (Word document)

Course Description

This course is designed to introduce students to the eXtensible Markup Language (XML). This introduction includes creating valid, well-formed XML documents, applying the eXstensible Style Language (XSL), incorporating XLinks and XPointers, and using some of the current applications of XML. Topics include Document Type Definition (DTD) templates, Cascading Style Sheets, XSL-Transformation and XSL-Formatting Objects style sheets, the use of namespaces, and applications of XML that are currently being used in the marketplace. 3 semester hours

Prerequisites/Corequisites

Prequisites: CA272 or consent of the department.

Goals and/or Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, the student should be able to

• Development and enhancement of non-technical skills
  • Speak and write about the course topics with sufficient proficiency
  • Apply critical thinking to a variety of topics in the course
• Introduction to XML
  • Describe the basic processes available to validate and format a well-formed XML document
• Rules of XML documents
  • Create a well-formed XML document
• Document type definition
  • Identify an underlying data structure and develop an efficient definition for capturing the data
• Entities and attributes
  • Use entities and attributes when developing a DTD to effectively track key data
• Cascading style sheets
  • Create CSS and apply it to an XML document with predictable results
• XSL transformation
  • Create XSLT style sheets to modify the structure and output format of the XML document
• XSL-formatting objects
  • Create XSL-FO style sheets to modify the format of an XML document
    
• Namespaces in XSL
  • Use namespaces to create multiple tags with the same name but different origins

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