Web Application Deployment - XML, DTD, XSLT, XHTML and More

XML, DTD, XSLT, XHTML and More - Web Application Deployment module A301

XML provides you with the ability to mark up data that's held in a plain text format to describe what each piece of the data is about. This module introduces you to basic XML, and the tools (XSLT, parsers, etc.) that you'll need to make practical use of it.

This topic is presented on public courses Deploying Java Applications on Linux / Unix, Deploying LAMP - Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP, Linux Web Server

Examples from our training material

capname.pl	Altering an XML document through LibXML
imglist.xsl	XSLT sample - produces a table of images
reminder.html	Sample HTML document from this module
xml5.pl	Alternative - using handlers
xslt.php4	Process an XML file through XSLT in PHP

Pictures

The DOM and SAX models for handling XML data

Background information

Some modules are available for download as a sample of our material or under an Open Training Notes License for free download from http://www.training-notes.co.uk.

Topics covered in this module

What is XML?.
The structure of an XML document.
Examples of XML documents.
Alternatives to XML.
Plain files.
Directory structure.
Table.
Relational database.
When to choose XML and when to use a database.
Defining data types with DTD and XML schema.
Parsing XML - SAX and DOM.
SAX code example.
DOM code example.
Formatting XML data with XSLT descriptors.
Accessing XSLT from programs.
XHTML.

Course links

The following web pages are used as references / examples in this module

[Link] XSLT namespace
(at http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform)

[Link] No Title
(at http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format)

[Link] No Title
(at http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd)

[Link] XHTML namespace
(at http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)

We check these links from time to time with a spider written in PHP. Latest full check was on Saturday, 12th June 2004. Titles are extracted from the web pages listed.

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