XML

Aims and Objectives

The aim of this course is to provide a wide-ranging introduction to the basic principles of XML and to provide practice with creating XML data sources. Why XML?.

A good, all-round introduction to XML can be found in Erik Ray's Learning XML [Ray 2001]. Programmers might get more out of Deitel, et.al. XML How to Program [Deitel 2001]. There are numerous web sites devoted to XML, most reachable from the World Wide Web Consortium's site [W3C]. A number of these are described briefly towards the end of the Introduction.

Course Content

• Introduction to Markup and XML
• More XML
• Document Type Definitions (DTDs) and Namespaces
• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• Simple API for XML (SAX) and the Document Object Model (DOM)
• Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) and XSL Transformations (XSLT)
• XPath (Under construction)
• Family Tree Example
• Course Project

Distance Learning

Students unable to attend the individual classes may take this course as a distance learning module. Students will need a web browser and access to the Internet.

References

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3. W3C, http://www.w3.org/

Contact Information
+44 20 7631 6703	+44 20 7631 6727	mick@dcs.bbk.ac.uk
School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX, England