BASIC XML CODING WORKSHOP (three-days, hands-on)
Instructor: Constantine Kaniklidis

This hands-on workshop provides registrants with practical coding techniques for basic XML programming and web-based development of XML documents. Coding exercises guide registrants through creating and validating XML documents, rendering XML documents with CSS and XSL, and programming using DOM. In addition, special attention is paid to data binding techniques for XML web development. The course concludes with a look at XML generation database techniques, including ADO.

Getting Started: Creating XML Documents
        Structure of a Well-Formed XML Document
        XML Namespaces

XML Validation
        Working with DTDs
        Using XML Schema
        XML Rendering with CSS 

XML Data Binding
        Table Binding
        Record Binding
        DSO Scripting

XML DOM Programming
        Understanding DOM
        DOM Scripting

Using XSL
        XSL Basics
        Using XSL Templates
        Filtering and Sorting Using XSL
        Using XSLT

XML and Database Processing
        ASP and XML Generation from a Database
        Using ASP DOM for Database XML Generation
        Using ADO for Database XML Generation