XML Overview
- 7 Hour Online Class or 1 Day Classroom Lecture
An introduction to XML and its implications for IT managers, decision makers and application developers. Covers an overview of XML, documents, markup languages, usefulness and advantages of XML, and the XML landscape; XML basics including XML documents, elements, tags, attributes, comments, processing instructions, parsers, and well-formed XML; XML content models including DTDs and XML Schema; XML stylesheets including CSS and XSL, and the basic stylesheet; other XML languages such as XHTML, XQuery and XLink; standard Schemas; Web Services, SOAP, WSDL, Service Discovery, and UDDI; XML, databases and XML-aware databases; and how XML fits into IT today -- where to use it, what skills and tools are needed, XML and web browsers, XML and legacy systems and XML and document management.
This seminar will introduce XML and explain its implications for IT. You will:
Learn what XML is and where it is useful
Understand the parts of an XML document and what makes it well formed
Understand how schemas impose structure on an XML document
Understand how Style Sheets can transform an XML document
Be introduced to certain core XML languages, such as XHTML and XQuery
Hear about current specific industry standard XML efforts such as FinXML
Hear case studies of XML implementations
Understand the role of XML in Web Services
Learn about the facilities for processing XML using the Java language
Understand how XML can enhance the capabilities of relational databases
Understand the potential impact of XML and its potential benefit to your enterprise
Receive a guide to additional resources that can further your understanding of XML
Background: XML is a universal data format that is both flexible and extensible. Since its introduction it has received widespread support from companies both inside and outside of the computer industry. Today corporations generate daily a staggering amount of data that have to be transformed, analyzed and exchanged internally and/or externally. The adoption of XML can bring increased efficiency and flexibility to these processes which should translate into substantial cost savings to the corporation. In addition, XML is one of the foundations for the new and exploding field of Web Services.
Audience: IT management, decision makers and application developers
Prerequisites: General familiarity with Information Technology
