Welcome to COIN 78, Introduction to XML. This page represents the outline and schedule for Introduction to XML, taught online in Spring Quarter 2007 online. Each week is linked to the example files from Liz Castro*, and the tutorial files, as well as PowerPoint presentations that you can download and print. Each lecture is a PowerPoint presentation, following the Visual QuickStart Guide to XML very closely. To download PowerPoint files, right click on the link in Internet Explorer. You will need the PowerPoint application to print these files. Given the many approaches to learning XML, you can really start anywhere after you have learned the basics. The assignments for the physical and online sections are identical.
Week 1: Overview of XML, XHTML, Course objectives, assignments, and final project
Week 2: Writing basic XML documents
Week 3: DTDs Part 1 and 2
Week 4: CSS
Week 5 : Integrating XML in HTML
Week 6: XSD - Schema
Week 7: XSD - Namespaces
Week 8: XSL and XSLT
Week 9: XPath - Patterns and Expressions
Week 10: Web services and special topics
Week 11: RSS and Meta data
Week 12: Final presentations (physical class)
Please note that academic quarter is twelve sessions. I have written this course with one week of 'play' in the schedule, such that the chapters at the end of the course can be combined together as needed for time.
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