COAP:COAP-2180/week2
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Week 2 COAP 2180
On week two we will look at XML in four ways:
- What is XML (some short demos)
- Editing XML (recall)
- XML styling with CSS (Monday)
- DTD architecture (Wednesday)
In addition to creating a CSS for XML, we also will start working on your own DTD (project 2/week 3)
Teaching materials
- This week: DocX and docbook
- Understanding and editing XML (recall)
- XML with CSS style
- CSS tutorial (reminder and for catching up)
- CSS for XML tutorial
- xml-css.pdf (slides)
- There are many good CSS references, e.g. CSS at MDN, SitePoint CSS Reference. In addition, you also may install the Codeburner for Firefox add-on.
- Creating a DTD
- DTD tutorial (wiki lecture notes)
- xml-dtd.pdf (slides)
- Examples files
- DTD and XML templates example directory
- To retrieve these files, I strongly suggest that you "save link as". If you open a file in a navigator like IE and then save, you may loose information ....
- Also consider taking the ALLFILES.zip archive which should include everything. Before unzipping, create a directory.
- Textbook chapters (see also week 1)
If you find that my lecture notes and slides are incomplete, too short or not good enough, reading either one or both texts is mandatory !
- Learning XML, Chapter 5 CSS
- XML in a Nutshell, Chapter 13 CSS
- XML in a Nutshell, Chapter 3 Document Type Definitions (start here)
- Learning XML, Chapter 4 Quality Control with Schemas (additional reading)
These chapters are available through the world classroom.
- For the adventurous
- XML Category (All XML-related articles in this wiki)
- XML (on Wikipedia)