IT Applications - About the XML module

XML

to introduce the basic principles of XML and provide practice with creating XML data sources.
to create new tags (elements and attributes) and parse XML on a web client.
to learn about the relationship between an XML document and a DTD.
to explain the concept of schemas.
to create an XSL stylesheet.
to learn how to query and sort XML data on an HTML web page using XPath expressions.
to demonstrate the role of XHTML in website publishing.
to understand XML validation.

Internet - The technology: Open standards. W3C. Client-server applications. Using XML to work with leading edge technology and legacy systems.
Structuring Data. Parsing and DTD. Markup languages. Using XML with HTML. Objects Document Object Model (DOM). Schemas. XPath.
Stylesheets: Rendering with XSL.
World-Wide Web: XHTML and relationship with HTML. On-line tools for validation.