| Program Detail |
: The Web makes content and data very accessible. However, as the results from any search engine show, it is very time-consuming to glean information from the enormous number of Web pages. Each new release of HTML has added more formatting features to enhance the Web as a publishing medium. In contrast, XML is a flexible foundation focused on structure, rather than formatting. XML enhances the information in documents. It offers a tremendous advantage in making your documents smarter, simplifying Web automation, and integrating corporate and vendor systems.
In this course you delve into document structure with document type definitions (DTD), sample domain-specific standards, and guidelines for designing your own DTD. The core of the course explores XML as the lingua franca for applications and databases on the Web. You look at generating XML on the fly from databases, parsing XML to extract the information, mapping between database schema and different DTDs, and alternative means of transmitting metadata such as XML-data. |
