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This course provides a complete introduction to XML and the Java XML APIs.

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What you'll learn

This course provides a complete introduction to XML and the Java XML APIs. The course is a balanced mixture of theory and practical labs, designed to take students from the basic fundamentals of XML, right through to mastery of the standard Java XML APIs. The students are walked through the different standards in a structured manner, to enable them to master the concepts and ideas, which are reinforced in the lab exercises. The course starts with the fundamentals of XML including document structure, and XML Schema. It then moves on to the basic relationship between Java and XML, including generating XML from Java and the mapping between Java and XML objects. Finally, students are taken through a detailed and hands-on examination of the two main JAXP APIs â?? SAX 2.0 and DOM 2.0. The course concludes with a look at some Java and XML related topics.

Prerequisites

Familiarity with Web and data processing concepts. Fundamentals of XML. Experience in Java.

Course Outline

Introduction to XML

XML Defined

Benefits of Using XML, comparison to HTML

SGML and the origins of XML.

The XML standard and how it relates to the other standards (XSL, XPath, DOM, SAX, etc).

Some real life XML applications.

The XML Document

Structure of the XML document.

The document body

Elements, tags, and attributes.

Prolog, XML Declaration and PIs.

Entities, CDATA

Well-formed XML

XML syntax and parsing.

Namespaces

The Motivating Problem

The Namespace Solution (Definition, qualified names, URIs, prefixes)

Namespace scope and overriding

Default Namespaces

Namespaces and Attributes

Valid XML Documents

Definition of a valid document

Definition of a schema

Schema Languages

XML Schema

General Form of an XML Schema

Elements, Attributes and Types

Element Definitions

Simple Types

Primitive and Derived Datatypes

Complex Types - Sequence, Choice, All

Element Occurrence Constraints

Attribute Definitions

Attribute Occurrence Constraints

SimpleContent Type

Using XML Schema with Namespaces

The Document Type Definition (DTD) Overview

The role and functions of a DTD.

Specifying internal and external DTDs.

Specifying elements and attributes.

Specifying internal and external entities.

Defining Elements

Defining Attributes

CDATA and NMTOKEN

DTD conformance and valid XML documents.

Comparison of XML Schema to DTD

Since DTDs are being phased out in favor of XML Schemas, we present only an overview here

XML Schema Advanced Topics

Element and Attribute Group Definitions

Defining New Types

Facets

Defining new Simple Types by Restriction, Enumeration, List, Union

Defining new Complex Types by Extension and Restriction

Generic Types

XML and Java

How Java and XML work together.

JAXP: the Java XML API.

Data Modeling: relating XML and Java structures.

Generating XML from Java.

Basic parsing concepts.

Getting and using XML parsers for Java.

Event-driven and tree-based parsing.

The role of SAX and DOM.

The SAX 2.0 Interface

Basic SAX design goals and implementation.

The parser interface and methods.

The ContentHandler interface and methods.

SAXExceptions and the ErrorHandler Interface.

The EntityResolver interface and methods.

The DTDHandler interface and methods.

Using SAX with validating parsers.

Other SAX features and interfaces.

The DOM 2.0 Interface

What the DOM standard is.

The DOM Java binding.

The DOM node tree.

The Node interface and methods.

Entity, Document, and other DOM subclasses

Building and traversing a DOM tree.

Modifying and transforming DOM trees.

Using DOM to generate or transform XML.

Using DOM with validating parsers.

Additional Topics

Other APIs

Performance Issues

JAXB Overview

JDOM Overview

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