COAP:COAP-2180

This is a program for an introductory XML course. It is based on my course at Webster University, Geneva. This is not the official syllabus nor the official program. See the (closed) Worldclassroom (Blackboard).

Warning: This is an old program that will be adapted for the 2013 edition !!

Program

We shall introduce roughly one topic per week. Also see the complete official syllabus for an overview.

• Week 1
• Week 2 - Project/Homework 1
• Week 3 - Project/Homework 3
• Week 4 - Project/Homework 4
• Week 5 - Project/Homework 5
• Week 6 - Project/Homework 6
• Week 7 - Project/Homework 7
• Week 8 - Term Project/Final

Grading

• Grading form and 4-point grading scale

Teaching materials

See the weekly programs for slides, textbook chapters and other resources.

Lectures notes

• XML (general overview)
• Tour de XML (list of real-world XML applications that I demo)
• XML principles
• Editing XML tutorial
• CSS for XML tutorial (see also CSS tutorial if you need to catch up with CSS basics)
• DTD tutorial
• XSLT Tutorial - Basics (See also HTML and XHTML elements and attributes)
• For Calibre, see http://calibre-ebook.com/
• XSD tutorial - Basics
• Exchanger XML Editor

Textbook chapters are taken from the following two books

• Erik T. Ray (2003), Learning XML, Second Edition, O’Reilly, ISBN 0-596-00420-6
• Elliotte Rusty Harold and W. Scott Means (2004). XML in a Nutshell, Third Edition, O’Reilly, ISBN 0-596-00764-7

Selected chapters are available through the worldclass room.

Other resources

• XML (Wikipedia) ... and related articles, e.g. Document Type Definition