COIN78 - XML (eXtensible Markup Language)
Welcome to COIN78, Introduction to XML. The syllabus, course outline, tutorials, and links to the assignments can be accessed from this page. This website provides the necessary material for Spring Quarter 2009. Students should also read this page first. Please note that the assignments schedule has changed.
You should read the Assignments page, and download simple.xml, edit the data fields in Notepad, and email it to me by April 15, 2009. This is your "assignment zero", which starts your journey through this course.
Given the many approaches to learning XML, you can really start anywhere after you have learned the basics. The assignments for physical and online sections are the same. You can view examples of "best practice" work of previous students by looking at the "example files" page.
If you are not enrolled in this class, you may use this website as a guide to learning about XML. The tutorials and example files are provided on a "buyer beware basis". This site has a lot of information, and is being updated. Please send comments as needed.
Course information
- Course summary - please review this before you start the course
- Syllabus - course syllabus
- Grading - course grading
- Textbook - recommended for this course
Assignments
- Assignment zero - Configuring simple.xml and emailing it to me
- Assignment one - Building your XML data model
- Assignment two - Creating a DTD
- Assignment three - Working with CSS
- Assignment four - Creating an XML schema
- Assignment five - Working with XSL
- Extra credit - XML sitemaps
- Extra credit - RSS feeds
- Final writing assignment - overview of XML concepts and technology
Outline of Tutorials
- Week 1 - What is XML? What is XHTML?
- Week 2 - XML syntax and data structure
- Week 3 - Creating an XML data model
- Week 4 - Working with DTDs and assertion networks
- Week 5 - Working with CSS and HTML namespace
- Week 6 - Working with schema
- Week 7 - Working with XML namespaces
- Week 8 - Working with XSL
- Week 9 - Using XSL to render an XML file
- Week 10 - Building an XML site map
- Week 11 - RSS, RDF, and XHTML metadata
- Semantic Web - Semantic Web and RDFa
- KML - Keyhole Markup Language (KML) and Google Earth
- Week 12 - Review of XML and family of XML specifications
Web Tutorials
- Using ETUDES - a good tutorial to start using our course management system
- XML overview - an index to all the XML tutorials at w3schools.com
- XSLT tutorial - a nice gentle start to XSL and XSLT
- XML Example Files - an excellent compendium of both simple and advanced XML files
- W3Schools - a wonderful set of tutorials that cover many aspects of XML
Copyright © 2009 - 2010 Robert D. Cormia - June 18, 2009