CS 366 XML

Topic Module Reading Assignment Notes
Week 1 (6/2) Core Introduction Chapter 1 ch1
Well-Formedness Chapter 2 ch2
XML Namespaces Chapter 3 ch3
Week 2 (6/7 & 6/9) Validation Document Type Definitions Chapter 4 ch4
XML Schemas Chapter 5, XSD Design Patterns Article 1, Article 2 ch5
RELAX NG Chapter 6, Design of RELAX NG ch6
Week 3 (6/14 & 6/16)* Programming Tree-Based: XML Document Object Model (DOM) Chapter 11 ch11
Event-Based: Simple API for XML (SAX) Chapter 12 ch12
Project 6/16: Team's Presentation Work Time
Week 4 (6/21 & 6/23) Processing Navigation: XPath Chapter 7 ch7
Transformation: XSLT Chapter 8 ch8
Query: XQuery Chapter 9 ch9
Application Areas XML and Databases Chapter 10 ch10
Web Services Chapter 14 ch14
SOAP and WDSL Chapter 15 ch15
Week 5 (6/28 & 6/30) Presentations
Final Exam

*: The instructor will be out of town.

	Topic	Module	Reading Assignment	Notes
Week 1 (6/2)	Core	Introduction	Chapter 1	ch1
		Well-Formedness	Chapter 2	ch2
		XML Namespaces	Chapter 3	ch3
Week 2 (6/7 & 6/9)	Validation	Document Type Definitions	Chapter 4	ch4
		XML Schemas	Chapter 5, XSD Design Patterns Article 1, Article 2	ch5
		RELAX NG	Chapter 6, Design of RELAX NG	ch6
Week 3 (6/14 & 6/16)*	Programming	Tree-Based: XML Document Object Model (DOM)	Chapter 11	ch11
		Event-Based: Simple API for XML (SAX)	Chapter 12	ch12
	Project	6/16: Team's Presentation Work Time
Week 4 (6/21 & 6/23)	Processing	Navigation: XPath	Chapter 7	ch7
		Transformation: XSLT	Chapter 8	ch8
		Query: XQuery	Chapter 9	ch9
	Application Areas	XML and Databases	Chapter 10	ch10
		Web Services	Chapter 14	ch14
		SOAP and WDSL	Chapter 15	ch15
Week 5 (6/28 & 6/30)	Presentations
	Final Exam

Resources

Textbook Website: Beginning XML 4th Edition.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the international consortium for World Wide Web.
Very good *FREE* tutorials on XML (as well as other Web technologies) can be found at W3 Schools.
On-line book (*FREE*): XML - Managing Data Exchange from Wikibooks.
Cafe con Leche XML News and Resources is a Website dedicated to XML that provides extensive information of the XML technologies. The book Processing XML with Java is generously made available on-line at the website by the book's author (who is also the website's host) Elliotte Rusty Harold.
XML Tools useful for this course:
XML Copy Editor is a very useful XML editor. It also supports validation, XPath, and XSLT.
Codeplot is a collaborative online development environment that provides XML validation capability.
Saxon is an XSLT and XQuery processor.
Kernow provides GUI for Saxon.
eXist is an Open Source Native XML Database.
Jing is a RELAX NG validator.
Trang is an open source multi-format schema converter based on RELAX NG.
A presentation "Architecture and Future of Web Services: from SOAP to Semantic Web Services" by Hugo Haas, W3C
XML Fever
Berners-Lee, T., Hendler, J.A., Lassila, O. The Semantic Web. Scientific American 284, 5 (May 2001), 34-43
Tim Berners-Lee, Foreword to the book “Spinning the Semantic Web” published by MIT Press.