XML for Publishing - Training Course
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With XML making an ever-increasing impact on the day-to-day publishing requirements of many companies, it is important that your staff are fully trained in all the aspects of XML.
Araman Consulting & Associates now offer a wide variety of XML (and SGML) training courses to suit the specific requirements of companies and individuals, initially these course will be presented in a classroom environment. However, later we will be offering them on-site, at your premises.
Araman Consulting has assembled a number of XML (and SGML) experts to present a three day programme that will not only cover the basics of XML and it's use in the publishing environment, but will also examine the more in-depth area's of XML such as XSL, XSLT and XSLFO that may be affecting your company now, or certainly will be in the near future.
These courses are aimed at people involved in the creation and management of data and the publishing process, be that to the Web, CD or paper. Attendees should be conversant with your production process and should possess good computer skills. Knowledge of HTML will be an advantage and attendees should feel comfortable working with new IT tools such as XML Editors/Parsers etc. without any formal training.
All attendees will receive full documentation of the course contents, sample files etc. and attendance certificate. As this will be an interactive course, we highly recommend that attendee's bring along his or her own laptops. Araman Consulting will not be supplying any hardware or software for this course.
XML for Publishing Training Courses
Training/Programme Agenda
Day One - XML, An introduction
Day
Two - XML, Programming Languages and Unicode
Day Three
- XML and Style data
Day One - XML, An introduction
- Introduction to XML
- Brief History of XML
- How XML relates to HTML and SGML
- XML Terminology – Instances, Elements, Attributes, Parsing, Validation, Processing Instructions.
- Well formed XML – what is it?
- XML and Data Type Definitions vs. XML Document Structure
- Defining XML Markup Rules
- Defining XML Root
- Defining Element types
- What are Attributes and Elements
- Document Type Definition’s & Schema’s and their place.
- What is a DTD?
- What is Well-Formed?
- Examples of DTD’s and Well-Formed XML
- Creating a DTD
- Analysing Documents for DTD development – how is that done?
- Examples of DTD’s
- Working with sample files & DTD’s
- Working with XML Elements
- Defining an Element – Nesting, Elements and Attributes
- Working with Attributes
- Adding Attributes to your DTD
- Types of Attributes
- Examples of Attributes
- Working with Entities
- What are Entities?
- Internal Entities
- External Entities
- Examples of Entities
- What is Parsing?
- Definition of Parsing
- Parsing Tools
- Parsing Errors
- Examples of Parsing and Parsing Tools
Review of Day One
Day Two - XML, Programming Languages and Unicode
- Perl & XML - Includes:
- Parsing XML documents and writing them out again
- Working with event streams and SAX
- Tree processing and the Document Object Model
- OmniMark & XML - Includes:
- Pattern recognition
- Sophisticated pattern recognition
- Source and destination abstraction
- Unicode and its place - Includes:
- Linearity versus Structure
- Characters with Compatibility Mappings
Review of Day Two
Day Three - XML and Style data
- XSLT for Publishing - Includes:
- Easy to use? - At least easy to start!
- Different Elements and how to use them
- XPath & XSLFO and where to us it - Includes:
- Absolute vs. Relative paths
- Basic page constructs and flow with mixed content
Review of Day Three
Feedback session and close of the Course
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