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XML Introduction

COURSE TYPE

Foundation

Course Number

542

Duration

4 Days
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Extensible Markup Language (XML) has become the default format for systems, and can offer your organisation an effective way to conduct business-to-business transactions and handle data interchange. In this XML introduction training course, you gain comprehensive knowledge and hands-on experience using XML and related technologies — including XSL, schemas, XPath, XQuery and DOM.

You Will Learn How To

  • Leverage the power of Extensible Markup Language (XML) and related technologies
  • Modify and search XML documents using the DOM and XQuery
  • Transform XML documents and apply presentation styles with XSL
  • Ensure XML data conforms to design requirements using schemas
  • Implement strategies to secure XML data interchange

Important Course Information

Requirements:

  • A working knowledge of computers and some experience using Windows

Recommended Experience:

  • Knowledge of programming and web development

Course Outline

  • Introduction and Overview
  • Surveying the XML landscape
  • The business benefits of XML
  • Exchanging data with XML: RSS, Ajax, web services
  • Designing and Implementing XML Documents

XML document structure

  • The document root and prologue
  • Elements
  • Attributes
  • Entities
  • Namespaces
  • Differentiating well-formed and valid documents
  • Exploiting popular XML editing tools

XML design and data mapping

  • Elements vs. attributes
  • Design techniques
  • Designing an XML document from a requirements document

Distinguishing dialects with namespaces

  • Adhering to proper naming conventions
  • Eliminating document ambiguity with namespaces
  • Defining namespaces using Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI)
  • Generating and Updating XML Documents

The XML processing models

  • Document Object Model
  • Event-driven processing
  • Navigating a document with XPath
  • Querying a document with XQuery
  • Event-driven vs. tree-based models

Communicating with databases using XML

  • Database storage options
  • Retrieving database results as XML
  • Reformatting database results with XQuery
  • Storing XML with a native XML data type

Processing information with the DOM

  • Navigating XML documents
  • Extracting and modifying data
  • Building XML documents from scratch
  • Creating element and text nodes
  • Validating XML Data

Constraining XML structure and content

  • Defining an XML structure with Document Type Definitions (DTDs)
  • Building XML schemas to validate XML structure/data

Validation with XML schemas

  • XML schema syntax and components
  • Specifying valid elements and attributes
  • Encapsulating business rules in XML schemas
  • Leveraging schema datatypes

Extending schemas

  • Importing existing schemas
  • Leveraging modular schemas
  • Defining custom user-defined types
  • Transforming Documents with Extensible Style Language (XSL)

The power of XML transformation

  • Converting XML documents to adhere to schemas
  • Processing documents with pattern matching
  • Specifying output format with templates
  • XSL best practices

Applying style to data

  • Formatting XML data for presentation
  • Styling XML for display as HTML and PDF

Searching and filtering with XPath

  • Formatting and sequencing XML data
  • Sorting, grouping and filtering output
  • Application Security and Integration

Securing XML applications

  • Implementing transport security
  • Encrypting XML data
  • Enabling SOAP security with WS-Security

Integrating applications with XML

  • Communicating with XML messaging
  • Investigating web services, SOAP and WSDL
  • Enabling an Ajax-powered web page with XML
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0800 282 353

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Tuition Fee — Standard: £2095  

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19 - 22 Feb ( 4 Days)
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20 - 23 Aug ( 4 Days)
2:00 PM - 9:30 PM BST Herndon, VA / Online (AnyWare) Herndon, VA / Online (AnyWare) Reserve Your Seat

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Course Tuition Fee Includes:

After-Course Instructor Coaching
When you return to work, you are entitled to schedule a free coaching session with your instructor for help and guidance as you apply your new skills.

After-Course Computing Sandbox
You'll be given remote access to a preconfigured virtual machine for you to redo your hands-on exercises, develop/test new code, and experiment with the same software used in your course.

Free Course Exam
You can take your Learning Tree course exam on the last day of your course or online any time after class.

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Training Hours

Standard class hours:
9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Last day class hours:
9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Free Course Exam – Last Day:
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Each class day:
Informal discussion with instructor about your projects or areas of special interest:
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

AFTERNOON START class hours:
2:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.


Last day class hours:
2:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.


Free Course Exam – Last Day:
8:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.


Each class day:
Informal discussion with instructor about your projects or areas of special interest
9:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

“Prior to the Learning Tree Course, I had worked with the technology but never fully understood the why or what of it. By working hands-on, all the separate pieces of the puzzle finally fit together for me”.

- G. Semple, Software Engineer
Canon Research Centre

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