Building Applications with XML, XSD and XSL Training Course

Introduction

• EDI, SGML, HTML, XML: hype or real?
• The Move from EDI to XML
• Comparing HTML and XML
• Key ideas within the XML recommendation

• Making a model.
• XML generating capabilities of Case tools
• Why do we need a data model?
• Automatically generating a DTD or schema.
• Reverse engineering an XML file

• The root element
• Empty elements
• Mixed content
• Well formed XML and Valid XML.
• Markup and content rules.
• Entities and PIs
• Using processing instructions
• Usage of external entities
• Internal and external DTD

• Making a DTD based on a model.
• DTD rules and techniques.
• Declaring elements and Attributes
• Simple entities and Parameter entities
• Graphically modeling a DTD
• Limitations of DTDs

• Adding non-parsed data to the XML file
• CDATA Statement usage
• Adding scripts to an XML file
• Adding binary files to an XML document
• Usage of comments within an XML file
• Difference between comments and CDATA

• Why do we need Namespaces?
• The default Namespace
• Reserved Namespaces
• Usage of the target namespace.
• Setting up a Namespace for your company
• Usage of Namespaces in a schema
• Namespaces in a Stylesheet
• Multiple Namespaces in one document
• The XSI namespace

• Working with simpletypes
• Exercises with restriction, Union and list
• XSD and regular expressions
• XSD and namespaces
• Import and include exercise
• Complextypes specifics
• Exercise with complexcontent and simplecontent
• Reusing and importing XSD types

• Using XPath basic instructions
• Document root, finding child nodes
• The current context element
• The 7 node types explained
• XPath Axes
• XPath Functions
• Overview of XPath function categories
• Node, Numeric, String, Boolean functions

• Using templates
• Variables and parameters, xsl:variable
• Performing repetition and conditional processing
• Using XSLT functions
• Using recursion
• Loop structures in a style sheet, xsl:for-each
• If-then statements and choose issues
• Programming tips and tricks
• Namespace issues inside a stylesheet
• Accessing external documents
• Advanced stylesheet usage
• Overview of XSL-FO

• Overview of the market.
• BizTalk and Oracle demos.
• Building or buying a solution?
• Comparing popular B2B tools.
• B2B Messaging
• EAI (Enterprise Application Integration)

• Self routing and non-routing documents.
• The ebXML and BizTalk framework.
• What is SOAP?
• SOAP messages.
• SOAP and RPC.
• Tightly versus Loosely coupled systems

• Wire level security.
• Message level security.
• Private and Public Keys
• Certificates, Hashes and Signatures.
• Encryption and authentication in SOAP
• Using security namespaces

• Why XML based Application to Application?
• The Wire, Description and Discovery Stack
• Sending XML to a database
• XML usage in Office tools

• The ebXML initiative examined
• WSDL and UDDI.
• Why is the ebXML concept so important?
• The UDDI toolkit
• Registering a webService