Concepts and Technologies of XML
Code
8283
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Department
Departamento de Informática
Credits
6.0
Teacher in charge
Carlos Augusto Isaac Piló Viegas Damásio, João Carlos Gomes Moura Pires
Weekly hours
4
Total hours
56
Teaching language
Português
Objectives
Knowledge:
- Basic XML concepts (name-spaces, well-formed documents, valid documents, hierarchical data model, data-oriented versus text oriented XML documents, etc.).
- The role of each of the XML associated technologies such that for validation, description, transforming and processing, querying, linking.
- The basics for a XML vocabulary definition and the available technologies like DTD, XML schema.
- The philosophical principle of separation of concerns from content, logic and presentation.
- The declarative nature of XLST for XML processing; The declarative and functional nature of XQuery.
Skills:
- To define an XML language for a specific application and to create a DTD or XML Schema.
- To process XML documents using XSLT and alt least one of the standard APIs.
- To select, install and configure the servers to build a web based solution.
- To implement a small/medium size web base application very configurable, using XML technologies.
Design and explore an XML data repository.
Prerequisites
Database concepts. Object Oriented Programming skills
Subject matter
1. Introduction
1.1. Motivations and design options on SGML, HTML, XML
1.2. XML syntactic rules. Entities. Rules for a good markup. Markup styles.
1.3. XML vocabularies for text and for data. Examples and differences.
1.4. XML model document and XPath
1.5. Overview of XML technologies, their roles and status.
1.6. Fundamental approach: separating the format from the content.
2. Validation of XML documents
2.1. DTD
2.2. XML Schema
2.3. Other approaches.
3. Transformation and processing of XML documents
3.1. XSLT
3.2. Other approaches
3.3. The role of XSL:FO
4. XML Databases
4.1. Overview and principles
4.2. XQuery
4.3. XUpdate and XML:DB
5. XML APIs
5.1. DOM
5.2. SAX
6. Metadata and XML
Bibliography
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XML in a Nutshell, Third Edition, Elliott Rusty Harold, W. Scott Means. Third edition, 2004, ISBN: 0596007647. XSLT 2.0 Web Development (Charles F Goldfarb Definitive Xml Series) Dmitry Kirsanov, Prentice Hall PTR (March 25, 2004), ISBN: 0131406353. XQuery from the Experts: A Guide to the W3C XML Query Language, Howard Katz, et all., Addison-Wesley Professional, 2004., ISBN: 0321180607. Beginning XML Databases (Wrox Beginning Guides), Gavin Powell, John Wiley & Sons (14 Nov 2006), ISBN: 0471791202 |
Teaching method
The syllabus is taught in theoretical and laboratory classes. In the former, the main concepts and techniques are addressed. The lab sessions are used to solve small problems for basic training. Some lab sessions are used to setup their team works used for evaluation purpose.
Evaluation method
The evaluation of students include:
- 1 theoretical individual test, where the knowledge acquired by the students on the concepts and technologies are assessed.
- 2 practical projects, for 2 students teams, that evaluate their competence on partial subjects.
- 1 practical project, for 2 students teams, that evaluate their competence on a project that integrates many competences.
The final exam replaces the theoretical individual test.