Outline

CD-ROM 1 (80 min)

Overview of XML

1.1 The Essence of XML

1.2 Business Value of XML

1.3 XML in the Real World

1.4 What About EDI?

1.5 XML Document Life Cycle

1.6 Three Views of Data

1.7 XML Design Goals

1.8 Related Technologies

Extensible Markup Language (XML)

2.1 Elements and Attributes

2.2 Entities and Entity References

2.3 Processing Instructions

2.4 Comments

2.5 Namespaces

CD-ROM 2 (90 min)

Document Type Definitions (DTD)

3.1 The Value of Validation

3.2 So What's the Problem?

3.3 Validation Tools

3.4 Declaration vs. Definition

3.5 Element Types

3.6 Attribute Lists

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

4.1 CSS Background

4.2 CSS Level 1

4.3 CSS Level 2

4.4 CSS Tools

CD-ROM 3 (67 min)

Extensible Style Sheets (XSL)

5.1 Getting Started

5.2 Node Matching

5.3 Flow Control

5.4 Sorting

5.5 Expressions

5.6 Generating Comments

CD-ROM 4 (70 min)

Manipulating XML Programmatically

6.1 What Is the XML DOM?

6.2 Understanding the Node Tree

6.3 Instantiating the XML DOM

6.4 Loading and Saving

6.5 Tree Navigation

6.6 Making Changes

6.7 Parameterized XSL

6.8 Custom Helper Classes

6.9 Simple API for XML (SAX)

CD-ROM 5 (71 min)

XML Schemas

7.1 Background

7.2 XML Schema

Databases and XML

8.1 Overview of Storage Options

8.2 OLE DB and ADO

8.3 Integration Tricks

8.4 Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Preview

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)

9.1 The Need for SOAP

9.2 Alternatives to SOAP

9.3 Designing for SOAP

 Implementing SOAP