Advanced XML Classroom Live Eagan, MN April 22, 2019

Course Overview

• 1. Course Introduction
  • Course Objectives
  • Course Overview
  • Using the Workbook
  • Suggested References
• 2. Defining New Types Using Schemas
  • Substitution Groups
  • All and Choice Elements
  • Simple Type Restrictions
  • Pattern and Enumeration Facets
  • Complex Types and Extensions
  • Complex Types and Restrictions
  • The final Attribute
• 3. Additional Schema Elements
  • Uniqueness
  • Keys and Keyref
  • Groups
  • Attribute Groups
  • redefine
  • Allowing Any Content
  • Mixed Content
  • Documentation Schemas
• 4. Using XML Schema with Namespaces
  • Qualified and Unqualified XML
  • Associating Qualified XML with a Schema
  • Associating a Schema with a Namespace
  • Controlling Element and Attribute Qualification
  • Merging Schema with the Same Namespace
  • Merging Schema with Different Namespaces
• 5. Generating Output with XSLT
  • Output Methods
  • HTML Output
  • Plain Text Output
  • XML Output
  • xsl:element and xsl:attribute
  • Attribute Value Templates
  • xsl:attribute-set
  • Text, Processing-Instructions, and Comments
  • Working with Namespaces
• 6. Using XPath and XSLT Functions
  • XPath Datatypes and Functions
  • Node Test Functions
  • Node Set Functions
  • Boolean Functions
  • String Functions
  • Number Functions
  • XSLT Functions
  • The document() Function
  • xsl:key and the key() Function
• 7. Advanced XSLT
  • Copying Elements
  • Numbering
  • Variables
  • Parameters
  • Using Other Stylesheets
  • Apply-imports
  • Template Rule Conflicts
  • Extensions
• 8. XSLT and XPath 2.0 New Features
  • XSLT 2.0 Grouping Elements and Functions
  • User-Defined XSLT Functions 
  • Multiple Output and XHTML Documents
  • Temporary Trees
  • Sequences
  • Types
  • Stylesheets That Are Schema-Aware
  • Character Mapping
  • Regular Expressions
• 9. Appendix A – Introduction to XQuery
  • What is XQuery?
  • doc() Function
  • XQuery Datatypes
  • XQuery Expressions
  • XQuery Prolog
  • Modules 
  • Conditional Expressions
  • Iteration and FLWOR
  • Built-in Functions
  • User-Defined Functions
• 10. Appendix B – XSL Formatting Objects
  • What is XSL?
  • XSL-FO Overview
  • Types of Objects
  • Defining Page Masters
  • Setting Up the Flow
  • Block-Level vs. Inline-Level Objects
  • Lists
  • Tables
  • Out-of-Line Objects

Prerequisites

Prerequisites:  Introduction to XML or some XML development experience.