2 – Information Description

Objective

• Introduction to the *XML* language: a meta-language exploited to describe document
• The *XML DTD* to describe the language grammar
• The *XML Schema* instead of DTD
• Elaborating XML documents with *Java*
• The *XHTML* language

Theory

• The XML Language
  • See also W3C XML Technology and the XML tutorial here
• The XML DTD
  • See also the tutorial here
• The XML Schema
  • See also the tutorial here
• XML and Java
• The XHTML Language
  • See also the tutorial here and here
• The PDF files were prepared by Prof. Enrico Lodolo

Exercises

• Exercise 1: By exploiting the Exercise 4 of Lab 1, and the new GCI application shown here, create the two simple CGI applications as described here
  • See also the Apache documentation for the CGI support in Tomcat
  • Solution
• Exercise 2: Experiment XML with CSS through the tutorial with your browser acting the transformation
• Exercise 3: Experiment XML with XSLT through the tutorial with your browser acting the transformation
  • See also XML examples here and XSLT examples here