Help:COAP-3180/week5

Week 5 - COAP 3180

Topics Covered

Homework and mid-term exam

• Quick feedback

Termproject

• Each student should now have a "must-have" and "nice-to-have" list of features
• Demonstration of the Wordpress extension "Formidable"

Crashcourse on XML

• XML - The formalism
• XML - where is it used
• XSLT - XML transformations
• XPath - identify elements in a tree (used by XPath and XQuery)

Classroom activities

(1) Wordpress

• Fire up MoWes and enter wordpress as admin
• Install "Formidable" if not already done so
  • Best method is to click on Plugins in the Dashboard
  • Else, use the ["manual" method] described by its developer.

(2) Edit an XML file

(3) Modify an XSLT file

• Filter data with XSLT

Homework 5

Details to be announced on Wednesday ...

• Pull out data in XML format from a database
• Produce an XSLT file that will display the data (any maybe do some filtering)
• Associate the XSLT file either server-side or client side.

The instructor will provide a php file that does the extraction.

Submission Dates

• This homework is due at start of wed week 6
• Students must provide the URL (where the instructor can see the widget) in the world classroom
• Each homework counts 10% in your global evaluation. The four best homeworks will be taken into account.

Links and teaching materials

Software

• A good XML editor, e.g. XML exchanger light

Online software

• none

Teaching materials

• XML
• DTD tutorial
• XSLT Tutorial - Basics
• XPath tutorial - basics
• XQuery tutorial - basics (preview only)

Teaching materials (older slides)

• http://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/te/files/xml-intro-edit.pdf
• http://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/te/files/xml-ns.pdf (optional)
• http://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/te/files/xslt-basics.pdf

Optional reading

• Donald Bourret (2005). XML and Databases, http://www.rpbourret.com/xml/XMLAndDatabases.htm
• Darshan Singh, Essential XQuery - The XML Query Language, http://www.yukonxml.com/articles/xquery/
• XQuery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XQuery (Wikipedia)