XML Basics

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
• Exercises

Theory

• The XML Language
  • See also W3C XML Technology and the XML tutorial here
• The XML DTD
  • See also the tutorial here
  • Check the XML and DTD file here
• The XML Schema 
  • See also the tutorial here
  • Check the XSD file 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
  • See also the Apache documentation for the CGI support in Tomcat
  • Solution
• Exercise 2: Build a XML file and its grammar to represent the phone book of Lab 1
  • Exercise 2.1: Experiment XML with CSS through the tutorial with your browser acting the transformation Build a CSS file for the XML phone book
  • Exercise 2.2: Experiment XML with XSLT through the tutorial with your browser acting the transformation Build a XSLT file to transform the XML phone book in a HTML representation
• Exercise 3: Experiment SAX and DOM Java parser to read the XML phone book
  • See also XML examples here and XSLT examples here