XML tagging is becoming a key standard on the Web, powerfully transforming the way you write content and propelling your text through a maze of software from your desk to the ultimate user.
This Course covers Parser Software and teaches you to create all parts of an XML Document. The critical role the Parser software plays is to monitor the tags you write to make sure they are correct, then check the structure of your document, to make sure it matches a standard defined in a Document Type Definition or Schema.
You will create all parts of an XML document, learning how to start and end a tag, how to write the names correctly, how to enter values, and, where to put the actual content. Frequent short exercises encourage you to create all the components of an XML document—a prolog, with an XML declaration, comments, and processing instructions, and a body with elements, attributes and entity references.
You learn how to follow the standard structure with your tags, to make sure that your document can be validated by the parser.
Note : this course does not espouse any particular software tool, and does not go into creating a Document Type Definition, Schema, or Namespaces. You do not need to know HTML, although some familiarity with it could be helpful. You do not need any special software, other than a word processor, and a browser, with an Internet connection.
Recommended text: David Hunter, et al., Beginning XML. Birmingham , UK : Wrox. 2000. ISBN: 1-861003-41-2 $US 39.99
Each week’s work includes reading our material, doing exercises, and exploring web information about XML. For a full description please click on KSA293 Ready,Set,HML for Non Programmers.
