COAP:COAP-2180/week3

Week 3 COAP 2180

On week three we will learn how to create your own DTDs

• Defining an information architecture (sketching out elements and attributes)
• Defining DTD rules and attributes

This homework can be a prototype for a part of your term project.

Teaching materials

Tour de XML (This week

to be announced)

Defining a DTD

• DTD tutorial

Examples files (same as before)

• DTD and XML templates example directory

Textbook chapters

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 !

• 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)

Homework 3 - Week 3

Deadline and submission:

• Monday week 4 (before start of class)
• Use the worldclassroom: https://webster.blackboard.edu/
• Submit the *.xml, the *.dtd and an optional report file (see below)

Task

Do not worry about rendering (display). It will be done in homework 4

Evaluation criteria (roughly)

Work considered as weak:

• Well-formed (but not valid) document using the DTD’s elements

Work considered as minimalistic:

• Valid document that includes very minimal content.

Good work includes:

• Valid document with an interesting content
• Some CSS

Excellent work (A-) includes:

• Inserted useful comments <!-- ... --> in the XML and/or the DTD
• Respect of the DTD's semantics
• Good enough CSS for easy reading

Brilliant work (A) includes either one of:

• A 1 page report that discusses the architecture of the DTD and your opinion of it, e.g. you can describe architecture of the DTD (without going into detailed description of every element !), discuss what you would like to improve, what you liked/disliked, your difficulties, etc. You simply can include this report into the DTD that you resubmit or as word/PDF/HTML file. As you like, presentation doesn't matter.
• Outstanding styling